[whatwg] Application deployment

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Russell Leggett
<russell.leggett at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes, the one major hang up that I foresee is how a browser should handle
> asynchronous loading. How would it know the contents of the archive before
> it loaded the archive so it did not try to load the same files directly? The
> simple answer would be to load the archive(s) synchronously.
>

That is a performance killer.

As for references in a different tab, if the separate tab/document did not
> reference the zip archive first, it would operate as normal. It would check
> the cache and then attempt to load. If the zip had been loaded from the
> first page already, the file would be present in the cache, and if not, then
> the browser would attempt to retrieve it from the server.
>

So you get nondeterministic load behaviour anyway. This is not good.

Rob
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