- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:55:58 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- cc: Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, "Web Applications Working Group WG (public-webapps@w3.org)" <public-webapps@w3.org>, Feras Moussa <ferasm@microsoft.com>
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > The problem isn't the cost of the URL mapping, it's the cost of keeping > the backing Blob around. If you drag around Google Maps for a long > time, and it used object URLs to load its tile images, it'd be very bad > if the browser had to keep every tile graphic around for the lifetime of > the page. Browsers do keep them around for the lifetime of the page, in their HTTP cache. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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