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IE8 speeds things up. Steve Souders notes that IE8 downloads script files in parallel before executing them sequentially, giving it a significant speed boost over other browsers that download sequentially.

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2 comments

  1. Celebrating Microsoft breaking yet another RFC? If the 'community' truly feels 2 connections is too low for today's environment, why hasn't there been a proposed update to the RFC, or a replacement RFC?

    Patrick Smallwood - 15th March 2008 00:14 - #

  2. Doesn't Safari 3 already do that ?

    Using their web inspector, it seems there can be more than 2 parallel requests. All css and the 1st js request seems to be sent at the same time.

    Dinoboff - 18th March 2008 22:39 - #

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