[Cosmo-dev] Bug 10304 and base64 encoding

[Matthew Eernisse]

Maybe I should have added that even long-term, I'm pretty strongly -1 on 
anything that makes the UI even slower than it already is.


M.


Bobby Rullo wrote:
> 
> On Sep 10, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Brian Moseley wrote:
> 
>> On 9/10/07, Bobby Rullo <br at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Because we invented EIM+JSON.
>>
>> and it's documented on our wiki and available for anybody to write a
>> client to use.
>>
> 
> I didn't say that no one COULD write a client for EIM+JSON, just that 
> none exists. And it was created for the use of the web UI.
> 
> I think other people using EIM-JSON is important, and I've already said 
> that explicitly. I am just reminding you why it was created in the first 
> place.
> 
> However, I do believe that departures from standards are important for 
> pragmatic reasons, as long as you offer the "strict" version by default.
> 
> There is nothing that Base64 encoding helps from the point of view of 
> the UI client, so I don't see the problem having it be optional. We've 
> all talked about optimizations for the web UI that would result in 
> departures from the Atom standard.
> 
> There are performance issues in the Web UI, and it is documented (by me, 
> on this list) that size of stuff (code + data) coming down over the wire 
> is a big factor, so being stingy with bytes makes sense.
> 
> Also, just because we don't (yet) have explicit performance goals 
> doesn't mean we should never consider performance.
> 
> To recap:
> 
> Mandatory Base64 Encoding:
> 
> Advantages:
>     Standards compliant clients will get base64 encoded content
> Disadvantages
>     Hard to debug
>     Somewhat bigger downloads
>     Decoding may be slow (TBD)
> 
> Optional Base64 Encoding
> 
> Advantages:
>     Standards compliant clients will get base64 encoded content
> Disadvantages
>     ...?
> 
> Bobby
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