On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Mike Hearn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@plan99.net">mike@plan99.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Yeah, I'd think this isn't really a problem that should be solved as<br></div>
part of HTML5 but rather as improvements to the protocol level.<br>
Spriting is after all just a hack around the strict 1-file-1-request<br>
nature of HTTP and not something that's really fundamental.<br>
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For instance theoretically SPDY should solve this problem. Or indeed<br>
so would HTTP pipelining, if it was used more often.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>HTTP-level solutions are vulnerable to broken proxies and caches, of which there are many. This is why HTTP pipelining doesn't really work.<br clear="all"><br>Rob<br>-- <br>"He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah 53:5-6]<br>