Request Reduction - The Cool, but Clunky Method

Yesterday we saw an interesting effort from Digg to address the problem of multiple requests and its effect on page speed.

Recently there has been growing interest in various schemes for request bundling. For example, a way to use data URIs in most browsers was shown here: http://www.hedgerwow.com/360/dhtml/base64-image/code.txt. It is ugly, but mostly works. In the past we have seen other folks use a variety of client and server-side schemes to bring inlined images and other assets to the masses - mostly with little success. That’s too bad. Read the rest of this entry »