jared.williams1 at ntlworld
Sep 16, 2009, 2:24 PM
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Re: Usability initiative (HotCatreplacement/improvements etc.)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikitech-l-bounces [at] lists
> [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces [at] lists] On Behalf Of
> Aryeh Gregor
> Sent: 16 September 2009 19:39
> To: Wikimedia developers
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Usability initiative
> (HotCatreplacement/improvements etc.)
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> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Andrew Garrett
> <agarrett [at] wikimedia> wrote:
> >> * Heavy icon use means a lot of extra HTTP requests.
> >
> > Non-issue, I think. If we think that icons enhance
> usability, and we
> > have appropriate placeholders in place, then we're willing
> to buy the
> > extra servers.
>
> It's not just server load, it's also latency that's visible
> to the user. Both in loading the images, and any subsequent
> files. Browsers don't load things in parallel very aggressively.
>
Can distribute them across multiple domain names,
thereby bypassing the browser/HTTP limits.
Something along the lines of
'c'.(crc32($title) & 3).'.en.wikipedia.org'
Would atleast attempt to download upto 4 times as many things.
Jared
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