Re: Pre-fetch rough draft

> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Michael Nordman <michaeln@google.com> wrote
>
> The appcache is encumbered with guarantees about atomically updating a set
> of resources and then explicitly not hitting the network for them once up
> to date to ensure the site/app will function if the network really is
> complete gone.
>
> This gist of this prefetch list seems different. More of a hint to warm
> things up if possible and viola things are more responsive if those hints
> are taken.
>

Yes. Exactly.
It's not about offline apps, it's about reducing loading time.
Prefetch manifest is a way to tell browser what should be downloaded in advance.
So when user opens the site (for the first time) all resources (css/js/images/...) are already cached.

And if later site's resources are updated browser could check prefest manifest and
re-download all new resources in background. Before user visited site again.

-- 
Sergey Nikitin

Received on Saturday, 3 November 2012 21:33:47 UTC