- From: Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:15:16 +0100
On 02/07/2012 10:19 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote: > On 2/7/2012 1:14 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >>> > Also, I am writing this on a laptop via a throttled mobile >>> connection. >> It'd be nice if sites had the capability to adapt to that throttle >> then wouldn't it... > > As I read through this thread -- all of these use cases are about > bandwidth. > > a) Images are too big. > b) Too many javascript files. > c) Too much html content. > > The proposed fix: > a) Send a display size header, have the server do magick. > > That doesn't seem to be the right approach. > > Let me know if I've got that right / wrong. > > I'm fine with sending a bandwidth-request header. > Something to say: hey you, I'm on a metered connection, don't waste my > time. > Or just, hey, this connection is slow, give me a hand here. FWIW, Network Information API (in DAP WG) might include those information in a JS API. -- Mounir
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