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I mostly agree, with the exception of two things: 1) It's much easier to stick meta tags in HTML than it is to reference an external file in many cases (blog h
by mrkurt 16y ago
I mostly agree, with the exception of two things:
1) It's much easier to stick meta tags in HTML than it is to reference an external file in many cases (blog hosting services, hosted storefronts, etc).
2) Sites that make the best use of that menu will have different data depending on what page is pinned. We didn't do much implementation, but assuming enough people used IE9 we'd probably make that set of meta tags page dependent. Separating it into an external link when it's page specific data doesn't make a bunch of sense. Particularly page specific data that changes frequently.
Also, that 1kb of text is more like 260 bytes gzipped (as it is for us). We'll survive. :)
- psadauskas 16y agoInteresting. I would have expected the Menu to be identical for a site or application. Maybe have different ones for a forum vs a dashboard, but identical between topics in the forum. What is the use-case for a different menu per-page? Do you expect users to pin different pages? And even gzipped, 260B * 1M pageviews/day is ~ 1GB a month. Plus the memory to hold the text, the CPU to compress it, versus serving a static file from Apache to the fraction of users the ask for it? Still sounds like a win. Maybe make it even more like stylesheets: embeddable in the page or linkable to another page.
- mfukar 16y ago1 GB a month? I download more than that in half an hour.
- SapphireSun 16y agoAlso, if you have 1M viewers a month, that 1 GB is probably a drop in the bucket.