[webkit-dev] Client Hints

[Maciej Stachowiak]

Does anyone else in the WebKit community have comments on this proposal?


 - Maciej

> On Apr 28, 2015, at 8:42 AM, Yoav Weiss <yoav at yoav.ws> wrote:
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> (Re) Posting Ilya's response from April 24th, since his response wasn't published on the mailing list archive for some reason.
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> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Yoav Weiss <yoav at yoav.ws <mailto:yoav at yoav.ws>> wrote:
> +Ilya for spec related questions.
> 
> Also, I forgot to mention it, but my intention is to implement the RW and DPR hints first, and see about the MD and RQ hints (which are newer to the spec) later on.
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> Yes, we should scope this discussion to RW and DPR. This is consistent with Blink implementation [1], and to keep this thread focused I'll skip the comments on MD/RQ/etc. That said, happy to discuss those in a separate thread :)
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> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com <mailto:mjs at apple.com>> wrote:
>> Is the Internet-Draft for this planned to become a standards-track RFC? Is there an IETF Working Group that has adopted it?
> 
> Yes, and as part of the HTTP WG. /cc mnot
>> On the spec contents: I’m wary of the fact that the header names are very opaque. That’s not in the HTTP tradition, where header names are generally human-readable. I am skeptical that the HTTP WG would be satisfied with these header names as-is.
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> I believe the intent with the short names was to minimize impact on the network, since the headers will be sent with every sub-resource requests once the server has opted-in. With that said, you're not the first to make that comment, so I'm open to modify that, especially since HTTP/2 makes this consideration irrelevant.
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> Uncompressed bytes on the wire add up quickly and short names are consistent with general policy of keeping those at a minimum. I don't believe this is counter to HTTP WG goals or guidance. That said, I'm not opposed to renaming them if there is a strong preference one way or another.
>> I know spec feedback may be off-topic for an implementation thread, but I’m not sure where else to send it since it’s not clear if this Internet-Draft is associated with a working group.
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> Spec feedback is most welcome. The best place to send it is the GitHub repo <https://github.com/igrigorik/http-client-hints/issues>. 
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> Big +1 to that. This is all great feedback, thanks Maciej.
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> ig
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> [1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/vOgv-TqefsA/o_fEsy8RFcwJ <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/vOgv-TqefsA/o_fEsy8RFcwJ>
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