15:28
<bkardell>
totally random q.... would it be useful for anyone else if the HTML spec had a service worker / offline ? Has someone made a fork like that or something? Was it discussed?
15:29
<bkardell>
I feel like I open this doc for searching very often and it generally takes a long time to load - if my connection just happens to be slow atm it is like... very very slow
15:29
<bkardell>
I guess I could grab the PDF but ick
15:30
<bkardell>
fwiw I have given this about 1m thought
15:30
<Domenic>
It's been discussed and is desired; all the other specs have it. It's just a bit more work nobody has done yet.
15:30
<Domenic>
The loading time issue is Chrome-specific though.
15:30
<Domenic>
And a service worker won't help that
15:30
<Domenic>
It's something about the HTML parser not dealing well with large documents.
15:30
<bkardell>
ok
15:32
<bkardell>
It's something about the HTML parser not dealing well with large documents.
yeah wow it is striking
15:40
<bkardell>
never compared in FF before
16:04
<annevk>
Browsers should just move to daily updates and bundle the HTML Standard
16:05
<bkardell>
:)
16:15
<jgraham>
Although if he problem is HTML parsing, they'd need to bundle some kind of dump of the internal representation.
16:15
<jgraham>
Might be easier for Chrome to just bundle gecko and use it for that URL ;p