[8199] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Content-lengths of dynamic objects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Tue May 9 23:16:23 1995
Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 22:58:19 +0500
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Reply-To: nazgul@utopia.com
From: nazgul@utopia.com (Kee Hinckley)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
At 8:09 PM 5/9/95, Jared Rhine wrote:
> KH> This has the disadvantage of leaving the user to wait until your
> KH> render is done. Otherwise for large options you could be presenting
>Hmmm, I just considered objects that inherently take a long time to render
>regardless of server load (databases and such). My objects aren't like tha=
t
>(yet), so I haven't had to deal with it. In that case, you would indeed
>want some mechanism to present some feedback to the user early; in this
>case, we will obviously need some kind of boundary or packetized data
>scheme; no getting around that, I suspect, if we want accurate entity-body
>delimiting.
I think a packet oriented approach would help. I know at one time there was
talk of doing inline objects that way and interspersing the packets so that
you could do what Netscape does without opening N-connections to the
server. Obviously it seriously complicates the protocols though.
Kee Hinckley Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects=81 617/721-6100
nazgul@utopia.com http://www.utopia.com/
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
