I have a web application where a client side editor is editing a really really large text which is known on the server side. The client can make any kind of modifications to this text. What is the most network-efficient way to transmit the result difference in a way that the server understands? Also, since this will happen on client si...
Does anyone know anything about the efficiency of HTML as a transmitted markup language? It seems to me that having closing tags rather than merely a closing curly brace (or just </>) adds a lot of text to a file. Bandwidth is a valuable resource, and when billions (trillions?) of HTML files are continually being transmitted around the w...
I'm building a .NET remoting client/server that will be transmitting thousands of files, of varying sizes (everything from a few bytes to hundreds of MB), and I'd like some feedback on the best method for achieving this. As I see it, there are a couple of options: Serialize the entire file into my remoting object and transmit at all at...
I want to send unique references to the client so that they client can refer back to specific objects. The encoded keys appengine provides are sometimes 50 bytes long, and I probably only need two or three bytes (I could hope to need four or five, but that won't be for a while!). Sending the larger keys is actually prohibitively expens...
I'm sending object IDs back and forth from client to server through the GWT RPC mechanism. The ids are coming out of the datastore as Longs (8 bytes). I think all of my ids will only need 4 bytes, but something random could happen that gives me a 5-byte (or whatever) value. Is GWT going to be smart about packing these values in some v...