Re: Network Optimizations Re: Summary of discussions so far

On 4/15/2013 2:53 AM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:
> Le vendredi 12 avril 2013 à 12:20 -0700, Wayne Carr a écrit :
>
>> Wouldn't Beacon in the proposed Performance WG charter be only for
>> upload?  Proposed charter says "An interoperable API for site developers
>> to asynchronously transfer data from the user agent to a web server,
>> with a guarantee from the user agent that the data will be eventually
>> sent."
>>
>> Couldn't the download part be covered by the new WebApps offline storage
>> topic elsewhere in your summary?
> Possibly, although linking "download" to "offline" seems a bit
> counter-intuitive :) I agree that it's likely that practically speaking,
> the two would have to be linked in terms of technology definition.

tip on html5rocks about using offline to speed download
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/speed/quick/#toc-appcache

>
>>> Possible W3C actions:
>>> * short term: start a Community Group to draft a spec? (or bring it to
>>> the existing Network-Friendly App and WebApp Best Practices CG?)
>>> * increase resources in WebPerf Working Group to help speed up the work
>>>
>> Rather than a CG, could this be covered by providing use cases for
>> Beacon and maybe resource priorities in the Performance WG and the new
>> offline work in the Web Apps WG?
> Yes, that's probably a reasonable approach.
>
> Dom
>
>

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