- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:52:16 -0500
On 1/17/12 7:37 PM, James Robinson wrote: > The way that these sorts of schemes work is that the server knows that a > set of resources are needed in addition to the main resource and it > starts sending them down before the client has received/parsed the main > resource. The server serving foo.html can have a pretty good idea about > whether foo.html contains the string "<script src=foo.js>" so there > isn't any real reason for it to not serve foo.js at the same time > assuming that the underlying protocol can handle such a thing. In > situations with high RTTs and reasonable bandwidth (like common mobile > networks) this can be a big win. > > I bring this up to make sure that we aren't making promises about > resource loads that we can't keep. Yeah, makes sense. Such promises are precisely what I'd like to avoid, yes. -Boris
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