[Outages-discussion] [outages] w3.org dtd files really slow? MOVED

[Jimmy Hess]

On 6/18/12, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> If they're not supposed to need to be resolved, why in the name of $DEITY
> did they put them in the DNS namespace?  They need to read Don Norman's
> POET, on "affordances" (and their converse).

They are supposed to be resolved....  ONCE;  when the parser software
is being built...   to construct the system cache or catalog when
preparing the parser for use.

I don't think it was properly imagined that app developers or
administrators would be so abusive as to allow their application to be
built or misconfigured in such a manner,
that   the  well-known URIs could be queried  at runtime,  every
single time the parser was looking at a document.

Even if W3 servers had unlimited capacity, this would increase the
latency of the parsing operation;  it is very poor app design.


> Cheers,
> -- jra
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-JH