OpenIDMozilla 1.7 RC 1
There are some interesting tid-bits hidden away in the release notes for the new Mozilla 1.7 RC 1 release. The following in particular caught my eye:
Mozilla 1.7 size and performance have improved dramatically with this release. When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla 1.7 RC 1 is 7% faster at startup, is 8% faster at window open time, has 9% faster pageloading times, and is 5% smaller in binary size.
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Support for server push of XML documents using multipart/x-mixed-replace and XMLHttpRequest.
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This release has a new SVG backend. The feature is not yet enabled in the mozilla.org releases but developers may wish to compile with this feature enabled.
Server push of XML documents? Sounds like it could make for an interesting twist on the remote scripting idea. Hopefully the performance improvements will show up in the next release of Firefox. As for SVG support, the sooner that makes it in to Mozilla stable the sooner XUL will be able to realistically compete with the upcoming rich client platforms from Macromedia and Microsoft.
Phil Wilson - 22nd April 2004 08:56 - #
Old Netscape document here on server push
Harry Fuecks - 22nd April 2004 17:26 - #
Actually, it is still in use, and would be in more use if there was more support (duh). It can actually prove quite useful, for example on the Bugzilla queries. Check Bugzilla's query.cgi source to see what kind of a hack is needed to "detect" whether the browser supports
multipart/x-mixed-replace.Jan! - 26th April 2004 16:39 - #