Here are a few things to think about: 1. Not everyone will have internet access. Businesses sometimes have limited access, or access to specific site only. There was discussion on this in the addons file registration a little while ago. What if you are travelling without internet and working on something locally? What if you are connecting to a hotspot, but need one of those items to view the "accept terms" to get internet access?
2. Speed. If you are on a slow connection, like cell wireless, having to download another file is going to cause the page to load that much slower. 3. Data caps. Yea, it is small, but if it can be downloaded when you are on an uncapped wifi when the program updates, as opposed to downloading over a capped network when needed, wouldn't that be prefered? If it is big enough to make a difference in download times, would it be big enough that you wouldn't want to download it over a slow capped network on-demand? Personally, I would prefer to have it already available. I tend to live by "Its better to have it and not need it than to not have it and need it." (or have to fetch it.) This is my opinion though. On 2014-02-26 15:49, Andreas Gal wrote: > > This sounds like quite an opportunity to shorten download times and reduce > CDN load. Who wants to file the bug? :) > > Andreas > > On Feb 26, 2014, at 9:44 PM, Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@smedbergs.us> wrote: > >> On 2/26/2014 3:21 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: >>> On 26/2/14 19:57, Andreas Gal wrote: >>>> >>>> Lets turn this question around. If we had an on-demand way to load stuff >>>> like this, what else would we want to load on demand? >>> >>> A few examples: >>> >>> Spell-checking dictionaries >>> Hyphenation tables >>> Fonts for additional scripts >> Yes! >> >> Also maybe ICU data tables, although the current web-facing APIs don't >> support asynchronous download very well. >> >> --BDS >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
