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Re:WebP: The WebPage Compression Format by notpushkin on Saturday September 07, 2024 @07:37PM (#41477124)
> client acknowledges bytes 0-2k of X

Doesn’t client see reference to Y at this point? Modern browsers start parsing HTML even before they receive the whole document.

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Re:WebP: The WebPage Compression Format by Timwi on Sunday September 08, 2024 @12:55AM (#41478291)
Not just modern. This was even more significant on slow connections, so they've kind of always done that. One could even argue that HTML, HTTP (specifically, chunked encoding) and gzip are all intentionally designed to enable this.
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Re:WebP: The WebPage Compression Format by account42 on Monday September 09, 2024 @05:34AM (#41486810)
Chunked encoding is required for the server to start sending the document before it has been fully generated (or the size becomes known) but nothing stops the client from parsing not yet complete documents without it.
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