Unless I am misunderstanding, SPDY will not solve this problem. SPDY uses prioritized multiplexing of streams. Generally speaking, a browser will map a single resource request to a single stream, which would prevent chunked processing by the browser without multipart/mixed. One could imagine working around this by splitting the single resource into multiple resources, and then relying on SPDY priorities to ensure sequential delivery, but that is suboptimal due to having limited priority levels (4 in SPDY/2, 8 in SPDY/3), and many of them are already used to indicate relative priority amongst resource types ( https://code.google.com/p/chromium/source/search?q=DetermineRequestPriority&origq=DetermineRequestPriority&btnG=Search+Trunk ).
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > > The HTTP server would then break script.js into chunks that are safe > > to execute sequentially and provide each chunk as a separate MIME part > > in a multipart/mixed response. > > Is it expected that SPDY will take much longer than getting this > supported in all browsers? Or am I missing how SPDY will not address > this problem? > > > -- > http://annevankesteren.nl/ >
