- From: Roland Bluethgen <calocybe@web.de>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:42:41 +0100
- To: Stephen Battey <Stephen.Battey@vega.co.uk>, www-html@w3.org
Stephen Battey wrote: > Looking at it from a different point of view, though, the ability to zip-up > a set of JavaScript files and reference the whole archive from a single zip > file, downloaded once and then cached is superb. Browsers can cache each single file as well, so they need to download them only once. As to the compression, Content-Encoding: gzip does this job very well. Only very old browsers don't understand this. The TCP/IP overhead (making a separate connection for each file) can be saved by using persistent connections (a.k.a. keep-alive). Again, only old browsers fail on this. So only the HTTP overhead remains. Is that alone reason enough to introduce an archive attribute, making user agents yet more complex?
Received on Thursday, 23 January 2003 08:41:50 UTC