>Hmmm, I just considered objects that inherently take a long time to render
>regardless of server load (databases and such). My objects aren't like tha=
t
>(yet), so I haven't had to deal with it. In that case, you would indeed
>want some mechanism to present some feedback to the user early; in this
>case, we will obviously need some kind of boundary or packetized data
>scheme; no getting around that, I suspect, if we want accurate entity-body
>delimiting.
I think a packet oriented approach would help. I know at one time there was
talk of doing inline objects that way and interspersing the packets so that
you could do what Netscape does without opening N-connections to the
server. Obviously it seriously complicates the protocols though.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.