- From: Bil Corry <bil@corry.biz>
- Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:59:13 -0800
- To: Kuzma Deretuke <Kuzma.Deretuke@gmail.com>
- CC: public-html-comments@w3.org
You may be interested in the following related threads: "Asset bundles for faster page fetching (fewer requests to the server)" http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comments/2009Nov/0003.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comments/2009Nov/0004.html "An BinaryArchive API for HTML5?" http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-August/021744.html http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-August/021748.html http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-August/021798.html "FYI: Mozilla's Resource Packages" http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-November/024126.html Mozilla has a bug entry for their proposal to add it to Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529208 - Bil Kuzma Deretuke wrote on 2/8/2010 7:32 AM: > Hello, guys > > Possibly you know about the common web-developer's problem - there are a lot > of small files on the page: icons, sprites, images, css, javascripts, etc... > > We have to make a lot of hacks and tricks to make end-user's page to load > faster. Such of them > - compose sprites in a single big image and manage this mess via the css; > - concatenate all css- or javascript-files, linked to the page into the > single porridge; > - ... > > I want to suggest the feature, that allows > - to end users - load web sites faster > - to developers - manage files, used on the page, in more flexible and > usable way > > Shot description: > *<link rel="cache" type="application/zip" href="small-files.zip" />* > > Long description: > Now all web-browsers look for the resources on the page (1) in the local > cache or (2) on the web-server. > > I suggest to introduce the middle stage - an archive with the cached files. > > It is significantly faster to load the single file about 30-50kB then 15-20 > files of 1kB size. Even if the cache-file will be used only on 10-20% for > this page. Also it is much simple to manage an archive with images, then > compose the big one from the small parts and manage it via css. > > I hope this feature or another applicable mechanism to solve this problem > will appear in the future specifications of the HTML. > > -- > Best regards > > Kuzma > Kuzma.Deretuke@gmail.com > ICQ: 209513394 >
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