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11th March 2008 - Link Blog

IE8 speeds things up. Steve Souders notes that IE8 downloads script files in parallel before executing them sequentially, giving it a significant speed boost over other browsers that download sequentially.

Posted 11th March 2008 at 5:42 am

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