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Evolving the HTML base tag further #280

Closed linuxguist closed 11 months ago

linuxguist commented 1 year ago

Dear WHATWG Steering Group,

First of all, thank you very much for evolving the web through standards and tests. As a Web Developer myself, I could appreciate the standards set forth to meet the needs of real-world web development, so far.

Secondly, I would like to see some development of the HTML base tag further, to support more powerful options, like those mentioned below:

  1. To start with, introducing a new basezip tag, instead of the current base tag, would help in differentiating between them. They can co-exist together, with some priority given to the former, than the latter.

  2. This basezip tag can support a remote OR a local zip file, containing all the ASSETS files / folders inside.

  3. Features of this basezip tag are:

a. Huge Bandwidth / Cost Saving / Reduces Network Transports / Global Warming / Climate Changes etc. b. Highly Portable / Swappable. Web Developers can swap all their assets to a Local / Remote location very easily, in just fractions of seconds.

The concept of this basezip tag are similar to a Docker Image Container OR a Virtual Machine Image Container, having all the requisites inside it. When Font Files are compressed to a Woff2 / Woff format, why not the Asset files, compressed / referred to, in at least a zip format ? ( if not more formats, like 7z for example )

Hope I am clear in introducing this new requirement.

Thanks and Best Regards,

Nathan S.R.

linuxguist commented 1 year ago

Further to my earlier post above, here are some facts, in support of it:

According to https://www.jsdelivr.com/, 8595 TB of bandwidth has been consumed in the past month, serving remote requests. Even if just a 30 % compression is achieved using the basezip tag feature, mentioned above, this would result in a huge saving of 6016.5 TB bandwidth, every month !!!!

tabatkins commented 11 months ago

Note that this is not the appropriate repository for issues of this type; this is for meta-level issues about the WHATWG organization itself, its tooling, and its working processes. It appears that you want to raise this in https://github.com/whatwg/html instead.

linuxguist commented 11 months ago

Thanks @tabatkins for the response. Yes, i will raise a seperate issue there. Closing this as resolved now.