This is our weekly Openweb Platform Summary from February 25 to March 3, 2013. You can read again the last week blog post. Your comments are helpful.
Multi-GET for HTTP2
Phillip Hallam-Baker is wondering if a Multi-GET method would be useful for HTTP2 to access directly a list of contents. The format would be something along
MGET <Common Headers> List <URI, Content header>
So after a browser has emitted a first GET
GET /toplevel.html
It would then request a
MGET </image1.jpg /image2.jpg …>
Read the thread
Streams And Blobs in Webapps
Anne van Kestern has mentionned specific extensions to XMLHttpRequest by Mozilla.
moz-blob: for incremental readingmoz-chunked-textandmoz-chunked-arraybuffer: for chunked reading.
Microsoft has also an extension for streaming. This becomes particulary useful in the case of a video stream. A discussion followed on what should be included in the XMLHttpRequest specification.
Test Cases for Web Messaging
Test cases are sometimes a very good way to learn a bit more about the code and the possible constructs. Microsoft has recently sent a batch of test cases for the Web Messaging API.
HTTP2, Encodings And Time
Threads sometimes take a strange direction. The HTTP Working Group was discussing about HTTP2 Encoding and the possibility to stick to UTF-8 only, when a secondary dicussion started about date format and to maybe make the switch to ISO8601 for date formats. Read the full thread.
