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From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
Aryeh Gregor
Sent: 16 September 2009 19:39
To: Wikimedia developers
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Usability initiative
(HotCatreplacement/improvements etc.)
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Andrew Garrett
<agarrett(a)wikimedia.org> 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