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So, in my day to day browsing of the web, reading news sites, twitter, facebook, emails, blog posts and all that other text content out there will only make my

by froo 17y ago

So, in my day to day browsing of the web, reading news sites, twitter, facebook, emails, blog posts and all that other text content out there will only make my web experience at least 31 times slower, but that's ok, because at least the occassional logo and embedded image will load just a little faster. Also thankyou for pointing me to that comment, because it also mentions that IE won't support data uri’s So all this does, is slow down the majority of a web experience for people who want a customisable, faster browser? How in any way is this a useful technique? Besides, the test is a bit stupid for a real world example - 300 tiny uncached icons? Yahoo talks about speeding up load times by reducing http requests, wouldn't you just want to do the same as a single CSS sprite (as Yahoo recommends), which would also reduce the overall image size aswell by removing unnecessary meta information?

e1ven 17y ago
It's useful for pages with hundreds of inline elements, such as uncached images. As I understand, the reasoning is that each connection to the server has a time-cost in creating and tearing down the connection. Creating X connections, up to the browser's persistent connection limit, and sliding all the data through those avoids the overhead of connect and teardown, allowing those specific edge-cases to go faster. For most sites, I don't imagine it would be a boost, for sites with lots of avatars like Digg or large forums, it might be a boost.
- froo 17y ago
  For most sites, I don't imagine it would be a boost, for sites with lots of avatars like Digg or large forums, it might be a boost. Oh, I didn't say that you couldn't think of an example where it wouldn't have a use, I was thinking perhaps some sort of photo gallery application would find tremendous use in this... if it worked in ALL browsers. However, the fact is, that IE is the current dominant browser and IE7 doesn't support this... so the point is really moot. Besides, your average Digg user doesn't read past the first 20 comments anyway (just look at the weighting in diggs for comments), does it really matter how long it takes for the rest of the avatars to load? Cool idea in theory, limited use - Digg could have spent more time working on profitability instead.
  - e1ven 17y ago
    Fair point, but I try to avoid second-guessing what's best for companies other than my own to do. For all I know, the bandwidth savings are greater than the cost of the engineer who implemented it. That said, there may be a workaround for IE7 via MTHML. http://www.phpied.com/mhtml-when-you-need-data-uris-in-ie7-and-under/ http://www.phpied.com/mhtml-when-you-need-data-uris-in-ie7-a...
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by froo 17y ago

e1ven 17y ago

It's useful for pages with hundreds of inline elements, such as uncached images. As I understand, the reasoning is that each connection to the server has a time-cost in creating and tearing down the connection. Creating X connections, up to the browser's persistent connection limit, and sliding all the data through those avoids the overhead of connect and teardown, allowing those specific edge-cases to go faster. For most sites, I don't imagine it would be a boost, for sites with lots of avatars like Digg or large forums, it might be a boost.

froo 17y ago
For most sites, I don't imagine it would be a boost, for sites with lots of avatars like Digg or large forums, it might be a boost. Oh, I didn't say that you couldn't think of an example where it wouldn't have a use, I was thinking perhaps some sort of photo gallery application would find tremendous use in this... if it worked in ALL browsers. However, the fact is, that IE is the current dominant browser and IE7 doesn't support this... so the point is really moot. Besides, your average Digg user doesn't read past the first 20 comments anyway (just look at the weighting in diggs for comments), does it really matter how long it takes for the rest of the avatars to load? Cool idea in theory, limited use - Digg could have spent more time working on profitability instead.
- e1ven 17y ago
  Fair point, but I try to avoid second-guessing what's best for companies other than my own to do. For all I know, the bandwidth savings are greater than the cost of the engineer who implemented it. That said, there may be a workaround for IE7 via MTHML. http://www.phpied.com/mhtml-when-you-need-data-uris-in-ie7-and-under/ http://www.phpied.com/mhtml-when-you-need-data-uris-in-ie7-a...

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