This probably belongs in the tech section, but whatever. One thing I've found inherently annoying about Freesites is how they work only partially, and navigation is so slow. Suddenly you can get a DNF in the middle of a site.
Is it possible, or are there any current plans, to be able to "group" content together on Freenet, so that if you are looking at a SSK site with index.html and page01, page02, page03.html etc, they are in fact only one "big" CHK file with an internal mapping? This would make navigation instant once you have loaded the site, and any DNFs would be a "all or none"-basis. The downside is of course that you would have to load the entire container before looking at it, but with Freenets latency to bandwidth (horrible latency, decent bandwidth) I think it would be superior to the current solution. Today most sites prefer to throw everything together on huge monolithic pages, and the size of even a small set of HTML pages is not big compared to the other file transfers going on. The space savings by sharing unchanged html pages between edition sites is minimal. A perfect example of why this would be good is an image gallery, where you could gather the HTML pages in one CHK. That way you could have 10 pages with 30 pics each, where the index pages would load instantly (the pics would be as slow as now though), instead of either one 300 pic page (disaster) or a site that is slow and frustrating to navigate. This should not require any change to the intra-node structure, as other nodes would see just a normal CHK transfer. Either the node itself or Fproxy would have to be upgraded to parse and display the correct item in the CHK file, but that should be fairly simple. In order to leave the FCP spec alone, making Fproxy do it is probably the best idea. Of course, it doesn't have to be just HTML, it could be completely arbitrary containers. But for most other stuff compression tools (zip, rar) & FEC-splitfiles do a good job already. Anyone feel this is a good idea? I looked through the achives back to January, and didn't see any subjects about such a scheme. I think it sounds very good at least. P.S. We'd sure better remember to run anonymity filter on everything in the container. Kjella ______________________________________________________ F� den nye Yahoo! Messenger p� http://no.messenger.yahoo.com/ Nye ikoner og bakgrunner, webkamera med superkvalitet og dobbelt s� morsom _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
