- From: Russell Leggett <russell.leggett@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:44:33 -0400
Hi all, I checked through the archives, but did not see anything, so if this has been addressed already, I apologize. This is a suggestion that is more helpful to larger single page web applications, but could also be very helpful to other resource intensive web pages. My thought is that it could be extremely helpful to create some kind of web application deployment format. Basically, the same idea as what java does with jars (Java ARchives). A jar is basically just a zip file with a different extension. Inside, it contains all the resources required for that application, including code and images. How hard would it be to support something similar in a browser? Instead of worrying about concatenating javascript and css files to reduce HTTP requests, if all js,css,and even images and other files could be zipped up or tarred, that would only require a single HTTP request. This could basically just add the files to the browser cache or other local storage mechanism so that requests for the resources would not need to make an extra trip. Thanks, Russ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20080727/55b06d36/attachment.htm>
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