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From: Magne Andersson <zirroz...@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.platform
Subject: Re: Making browsers faster: Resource Packages
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:24:26 -0800 (PST)
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On 17 Nov, 11:17, Ictinus <icti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 17, 9:00=A0pm, Magne Andersson <zirroz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 17 Nov, 10:55, Ictinus <icti...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I think I'd rather not have to unzip/edit/re-zip every time I modify =
a
> > > resource (oops someone forgot to zip!) Especially when the resources
> > > in question are not maintained in a file system.
> > > eg. IBM/Lotus Domino holds the resources within another file structur=
e
> > > (.nsf)
> > > I would much prefer to have the server dish up a single (cached)
> > > gzipped, minified resource to the browser.
> > > Seewww.dominoexperts. com/dapInfo
>
> > Well, obviously, you wouldn't include a frequently edited resource in
> > the ZIP, but most sites have their resources static for quite a long
> > time.
>
> I agree, perhaps a ZIP file would be useful in the short term, but a
> server managed solution long term would allow all resources to get the
> performance benefit.
> Not having to manage the zip file makes a developers life easier.
> Having it server side means more benefit. After all we already do gzip
> server side.

I don't think you understood what I meant, I said that this solution
is great for resources that doesn't update frequently. This is also
made to eliminate requests, GZIP doesn't do that. It just makes the
files smaller.