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Just the amount of mobile data transfer that could be saved by 1MB of software pre-distributed to all browsers would be huge. That would be great. I’m normally
by iainmerrick 8y ago
Just the amount of mobile data transfer that could be saved by 1MB of software pre-distributed to all browsers would be huge.
That would be great. I’m normally a fan of multiple competing implementations, but this might be an area where a single common library implementation, developed in partnership by all browser vendors, would be beneficial. All the code would be in wasm so it would be portable by definition. And with everybody using exactly the same implementation there shouldn’t be any sneaky incompatibilities. With a single master repo it could be versioned and updated cleanly.
Just as long as it’s kept small (1MB sounds like a good goal) and there isn’t too much churn -- those are the real challenges.
- PowerfulWizard 8y agoYeah agreed, it is extra complicated since it requires coordination between browsers and also enough websites to make it worth it. If it were released today it could take years to register in i.e. global internet statistics. I guess in theory shared CDN's and caching should be almost as good as well if major website could agree on dependency sharing.