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Matthew Graybosch hello at matthewgraybosch.com
Wed Jun 10 17:54:09 BST 2020
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 18:20:03 +0200Peter Vernigorov <pitr.vern at gmail.com> wrote:
Although this makes sense at first glance, I believe that a status
code is too late to let user know that the file is large. Bytes are
already being transferred and received by user's OS, even if client
is not reading them yet. By the time any of this information is
displayed to the user, and the time it takes them to react, damage
has already been done. I think the only sensible solution is for
pages to display size information to user next to the link.
I agree, but I suspect that unless content authors take the time toprovide this information themselves displaying size info next to linkswill require multiple rounds of communication between the user agentand the server just to query file sizes. That probably isn't whatsolderpunk, etc. had in mind.
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