- From: Diego Perini <diego.perini@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:46:09 +0200
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:11 PM, James May <whatwg at fowlsmurf.net> wrote: > On 4 August 2010 20:08, Christoph P?per <christoph.paeper at crissov.de> > wrote: > > * Argument: What about incremental rendering? > > If there are, for instance, lots of (content) images in the resource file > I will see them all at once as soon as the ZIP has been downloaded > completely and decompressed, but with single files I would have seen them > appear one after the other, which might have been enough. > > ZIP files are progressively renderable, dependant on file order. > In my experience "gzip" compression is blocking browser rendering until the compressed file has been received completely. I believe this is the reason we should not compress the HTML source, just its external binary components. I don't think the browser can separately decompress each block of a chunked transfer as it arrives, am I wrong ? Diego Perini -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100804/ebb221cf/attachment.htm>
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