On 28/2/14 11:44, Gervase Markham wrote:
On 26/02/14 20:21, Jonathan Kew wrote:
Lets turn this question around. If we had an on-demand way to load
stuff like this, what else would we want to load on demand?
A few examples:
Spell-checking dictionaries
Hyphenation tables
Fonts for additional scripts
If this came with an update system (i.e. a way for Firefox to know the
data is out of date) then the Public Suffix List would benefit. It's a
small amount of data, but non-ideal if it goes stale.
But maybe that's scope creep.
Presumably we always want the complete PSL available. So it really
should be part of the base product, not a [try-to-]load-on-demand resource.
Isn't it sufficient to update that with each new Firefox release?
If there is data such as this that is always included, but would benefit
from being updated separately from the regular release schedule (without
actually pushing out a dot release or chemspill), I think that's a
rather different use-case, even if a common underlying mechanism could
perhaps end up serving both.
JK
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