[I joined the list and posted this again, I think the previous one got trapped in moderation]
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mike Lawther <mikelawt...@chromium.org> Date: 19 February 2016 at 17:52 Subject: Re: APNG and Accept-Encoding To: Jeff Muizelaar <jmuizel...@mozilla.com> Cc: Mozilla <dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org> Sorry, I did mean Accept, not Accept-Encoding. My bad - those two always hash collide in my head for some reason :/ On 19 February 2016 at 01:45, Jeff Muizelaar <jmuizel...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Is there a response to the criticism of Accept outlined here: > https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Why_not_conneg#Negotiating_by_format > > A lot of the criticism there is essentially 'you can't rely on it, because not everybody sends it'. It's a fair question. And it's a large reason why I'm asking the question I did :) If we can coordinate on this then it becomes more reliable. Our experience with WebP and things such as data compression proxies is that it does get used. In this use case, the end user gets identical behaviour, but it has cost them less in network bandwidth. The CDN use case is similar. The data cost reduction is significant in a lot of markets. And in these use cases, it doesn't matter if the header is not sent by every browser. The users of ones that do get a benefit. I'm testing the water here :) Is this at all likely to fly? thanks, mike > -Jeff > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Mike Lawther <mikelawt...@chromium.org> > wrote: > > Hi Mozilla developers! > > > > tl,dr; can Firefox send an Accept-Encoding heading for APNG? > > > > I'm an engineer at Google working on Chrome. We're considering support > for > > APNG. > > > > To support APNG, we think it's important for web developers (including > for > > example CDN operators) to be able to decide server-side what content to > > ship. We want to send an Accept-Encoding header. This would be for > whatever > > MIME type APNG ends up with, but that's another topic. The latest I've > seen > > on this is "vnd.mozilla.apng" (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ > > show_bug.cgi?id=1160200). > > > > If Chrome does decide to support APNG, it would be ideal for both our > > browsers to be compatible in this respect as well. > > > > Is this something we can coordinate on? > > > > thanks, > > > > Mike Lawther > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
