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 expensive you could save some time when a user clicked on a > link. Times have changes and the web has evolved.
Prefetch isn't mentioned in the HTTP spec at all. And I don't think anyone was doing it back in the modem age. AFAIK, Google started doing it with Chrome, and other people followed. It *does* help in some cases. Lots of sites have lame slow DNS servers (and lots of ISPs have lame slow recursive resolvers). We just don't want to try to pre-resolve every single link on the page. -- Dan _______________________________________________ webkit-gtk mailing list webkit-gtk@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-gtk