Re: (not so)Quick Update on my progress

[Kultarr <kultarr@rocketmail.com>]

---Gregory Maxwell <nullc@nightshade.ml.org> wrote:
[He's been busy with the cache problem.]

A couple of points...

1) Good work.  Has anyone discussed the ability to selectively
download and cache graphics from pages?  Over a modem, I have
often used lynx for browsing because it is blazing fast by
comparison to browse for information and not have to wait for lots
of graphics.  [Netscape used to render the HTML onscreen early
and then backfill the graphics portion, which was another
(and good, IMHO) approach.]  I guess applets would also fall
under something that could be selectively deferred.

Basically, I guess I prefer the "display as much information
as soon as you possibly can" approach.

I guess this is more of a display manager topic than cache...

2) You mentioned snooping on other "local" caches... I had a
couple questions on that aspect.  How do you know what other
machines "are close" to the current machine in general?  What
about security/privacy issues?

3) I like the idea of prefetching small HTML pages.  Another 
enhancement could be to put some predictive intelligence (based
on history and content) to determine where the user is likely
to want to go next.

===
Kultarr

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