A Quicker Web
More effective use of scarce bandwidth
Why: The web is too slow!
Barriers: Limitations of protocols (HTML, HTTP)
How: Caching, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/NG, Education, Charging!
Familiarisation: Monitoring web pages, Internet magazines, attending workshops
Technologies
- Caching: Essential!
- HTTP/1.1: New protocol is more cache-aware, and avoids problems (e.g. stale information) which have occurred in the past
- HTTP/NG: Proposal for new protocol
- Style sheets: Avoids need for large images for design effects
- Scripting Languages / Java: Exploit processing power at client