  Re: Suggestion for a new HTML Tag  From: Ben Bucksch
<ben.bucksch.news@beonex.com> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 22:42:49
+0100 Message-ID: <3C30DBD9.5010903@beonex.com> To: Jeff Barber
<jeff.barber@oracle.com> Cc: www-html@w3.org Jeff Barber wrote:
>There are lots of methods of compressing images >which help
speed page display times, however the main problem (apart from
>size) is network round trip. >Each time an image is requested
the browser has to go back to the server. >I would have thought
that a simple solution to this would have been to >combine all
of the images into a single file >What say you ? Seems like it's
an old FAQ:   From <http://www.mozilla.org/docs/mozilla-
faq.html>:  1.13) _I did all that, and people were still rude to
me. Why?_     If you're proposing reworking something (like
HTTP, HTML, etc)     you're expected to have a pretty good
knowlege of it first. For     example, if you were to make a
proposal to compress whole webpages     before sending them,
devise a new protocol to do so, resea