Re: [webkit-gtk] dns prefetching knob

2011-03-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
Updated patch that includes comments from the webkit folks. I added some performance numbers to: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55973 Any chance this can make it in 1.2.8? --- WebCore/ChangeLog.orig Tue Mar 8 16:16:50 2011 +++ WebCore/ChangeLog Tue Mar 8 16:10:10 2011 @@ -1,3

Re: [webkit-gtk] dns prefetching knob

2011-03-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 07:16 -0500, Dan Winship wrote: On 03/08/2011 07:07 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: I created a bug report to add a DNS prefetch knob but I was advised to also send the patch to the mailing list. With this knob I can make the web browser I wrote (xxxterm

Re: [webkit-gtk] dns prefetching knob

2011-03-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 09:33:21AM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 07:16 -0500, Dan Winship wrote: On 03/08/2011 07:07 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: I created a bug report to add a DNS prefetch knob but I was advised to also send the patch to the mailing list.

Re: [webkit-gtk] dns prefetching knob

2011-03-09 Thread Dan Winship
On 03/09/2011 07:55 AM, Marco Peereboom wrote: For some reason people are still attached to this relic of the modem era. DNS prefetch is optional in the HTTP spec and the time has come to admit that it no longer serves a purpose. Back in the day when modems were king and DNS lookups were

Re: [webkit-gtk] dns prefetching knob

2011-03-09 Thread Todd T. Fries
Penned by Dan Winship on 20110309 8:10.16, we have: | On 03/09/2011 07:55 AM, Marco Peereboom wrote: | For some reason | people are still attached to this relic of the modem era. DNS prefetch | is optional in the HTTP spec and the time has come to admit that it no | longer serves a purpose

Re: [webkit-gtk] dns prefetching knob

2011-03-09 Thread Martin Robinson
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: Hence the knobbing part.  Some people have legitimate use for it which is of course fine.  I want it for performance reasons but also to prevent DNS tracking.  Between DNS prefetching, link hovering and the empty DNS

Re: [webkit-gtk] dns prefetching knob

2011-03-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:55:37AM -0800, Martin Robinson wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: Hence the knobbing part. ??Some people have legitimate use for it which is of course fine. ??I want it for performance reasons but also to prevent DNS