Chrome 40 Beta Brings Service Workers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Chrome 40 Beta Brings Service Workers

Google's web browser developers have announced the beta release today of Chrome/Chromium 40...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg1NDA

[My8th]

Would Phoronix take advantage of this? Examples like caching the theme/icons and michael article photo so we can see his pretty face quicker, also the other category icons you use for articles.

[balouba]

lemme guess. this only works with chrome.

[My8th]

lemme guess. this only works with chrome.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903441

Other browsers are working on it too.

[Zan Lynx]

Would Phoronix take advantage of this? Examples like caching the theme/icons and michael article photo so we can see his pretty face quicker, also the other category icons you use for articles.

There's no need to use fancy Service Workers to cache images. If the images were set to Expire in 2037, in other words, infinity, then the web browser would never try to reload them.

IMHO all images should be set like this. If they need to be updated then update a serial number as part of each image file name.

[caligula]

There's no need to use fancy Service Workers to cache images. If the images were set to Expire in 2037, in other words, infinity, then the web browser would never try to reload them.

IMHO all images should be set like this. If they need to be updated then update a serial number as part of each image file name.

Yes, this would sound a great way to do it. However web tech is mostly about half assed solutions by retards.

[My8th]

There's no need to use fancy Service Workers to cache images. If the images were set to Expire in 2037, in other words, infinity, then the web browser would never try to reload them.

IMHO all images should be set like this. If they need to be updated then update a serial number as part of each image file name.

So it'll work like Service Workers version numbers for cached objects, just needs a serial number change to replace an older version of the cached image. What if the image set to expire infinite and no serial number change to say old image is not needed anymore?

[caligula]

So it'll work like Service Workers version numbers for cached objects, just needs a serial number change to replace an older version of the cached image. What if the image set to expire infinite and no serial number change to say old image is not needed anymore?

One way is to leave the cache eviction policy to the client. After all you can't cache all web.

[My8th]

One way is to leave the cache eviction policy to the client. After all you can't cache all web.

For phones that have slow connections and limited cache sizes, wouldn't removing stuff that'll definitely not be used before removing old/infrequent cached objects be better. Wouldn't something like Service Workers add the type of info to improve this situation?

[uid313]

Now if they only could get it to integrate and blend in nicely on Linux.

It looks so alien and ugly and weird.