- From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 09:16:25 +0000
- To: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- Cc: "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
Alex, > > Does having a simple textual manifest file that just lists the content of > > the package as the first item in the package help at all? > > Unclear. It's a foot-race, after all. A client will do request to get the > document, which usually streams in pretty quickly relative to the RTT's you > need to navigate for sub-resources. This is confounded by advice like this > which indicates to authors that they should be requesting some resources as > early as possible in their documents: > > https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rtt#PutStylesBeforeScripts > > This is especially important for resources that are going to be fetched > off-origin and for which warming up DNS can add considerable latency. Just to note that packages won’t contain off-origin resources, so it’s still perfectly reasonable for publishers/browsers to do that. Not that I think it affects the majority of your argument. Jeni -- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/
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