Re: Pre-fetch rough draft

On 2012-11-02 11:16, nop@yandex-team.ru wrote:
>> 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.

There's already the "prefetch" link relation that you could use.

> 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.

But then you don't need a manifest for that (see above).

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 5 November 2012 12:29:14 UTC