Re: [Tools-discuss] Serving a partial documents (was Re: [rfc-i] Citing drafts)

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:03 AM Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> wrote:

> So, I _think_ the way the main document page behaves now was intended to
> protect people on low bandwidth or expensive bandwidth connections from
> very large documents.
>
> Is that still something we should consider important? Or would it be
> better if the main page served the whole document all the time?
>

I think that's largely unnecessary at this time, especially given that a
lot of people currently go to tools which serves the whole thing

-Ekr

> RjS
>
> On 2/26/21 11:46 AM, Salz, Rich wrote:
> > Moved from rfc-interest (BCC) to tools-discuss.
> >
> >>     My pet hate is that I have to scroll to the bottom before I can
> tell the
> >      system that I want the lot.
> >
> > (Are hates what peeves become when fully grown? :)
> >
> > One the one hand, I get it.  I find it annoying too.  On the other hand,
> you're presumably already down at the bottom of the page at the time you
> see it. On the third hand, it's annoying to have to tweak the link if you
> already started sharing it. On the fourth hand, it could be an easy change.
> >
> > When would you want to get the full document?  When you click on a
> document from the WG page?  (e.g.,
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/acme/documents/ )
> >
> >
>
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