Re: "Packing on the Web" -- performance use cases / implications

For anyone interested in following along:
https://github.com/w3ctag/packaging-on-the-web/issues/23

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Nottingham, Mark <mnotting@akamai.com>
wrote:

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> > On 22 Jan 2015, at 7:54 am, Ilya Grigorik <igrigorik@google.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Martin Thomson <
> martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm talking about the use cases that .zip files satisfy, not that.  I
> > don't know why separating these is a problem.
> >
> > Looking at the cited use cases in [1]... 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 do not need
> bundling and are *much* better handled by the UA fetching granular
> resources based on the description in the package/manifest. In fact, even
> for 2.4 it's not strictly necessary: the package contents can be downloaded
> into a folder without forcing bundling within the package request. I think
> we need to revisit the use cases and clarify their intent...
>
> +1.
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> Mark Nottingham    mnot@akamai.com    https://www.mnot.net/
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Received on Saturday, 14 February 2015 01:13:45 UTC