> > OK, it sounds that this is somewhat specific to your use case.
> Personally, I don't see the advantage of sending links
> > and then early getting each of the pieces: it creates multiple
> connections to get a single entity
>
> +1. Marek
>
> >
> >> But I
> >> understand that other users might not have that need. BTW, about
> browsers: I
> >> don't know whether it's just my browser, but mine is loading ALL
> images at
> >> once when I open a HTML page. Yours is not? ;-)
> >
> > Yes, but those are for embedded images like <img src="…"> not <a
> href="…">. In general, embedding binary data in
> > HTML/XML isn't a good idea (hence <img> and MTOM); the use case for
> structural links is more general than that.
I can remember a time when cache preloading was a hot topic. This is nothing different than that. And I never talked about embedding binary data. In fact I talked about XML.