Hello, guys Possibly you know about the common web-developer's problem - there are a lot of small files on the page: icons, sprites, images, css, javascripts, etc...
We have to make a lot of hacks and tricks to make end-user's page to load faster. Such of them - compose sprites in a single big image and manage this mess via the css; - concatenate all css- or javascript-files, linked to the page into the single porridge; - ... I want to suggest the feature, that allows - to end users - load web sites faster - to developers - manage files, used on the page, in more flexible and usable way Shot description: *<link rel="cache" type="application/zip" href="small-files.zip" />* Long description: Now all web-browsers look for the resources on the page (1) in the local cache or (2) on the web-server. I suggest to introduce the middle stage - an archive with the cached files. It is significantly faster to load the single file about 30-50kB then 15-20 files of 1kB size. Even if the cache-file will be used only on 10-20% for this page. Also it is much simple to manage an archive with images, then compose the big one from the small parts and manage it via css. I hope this feature or another applicable mechanism to solve this problem will appear in the future specifications of the HTML. -- Best regards Kuzma [email protected] ICQ: 209513394
