First off thank you very, very much for the technical review. Your input as a customer is invaluable to us and

is integral to our ‘customer.com’ development process. You bring up some great points!

Specifically:

1) Putting static images and in a domain other than ngs\subscriber and using more friendly cache headers is

something we’ll experiment with, completely agreed!

2) We do have gzip compression for JS coming from the end-point in our data JSON objects but we made a

conscious decision not to do this for the JS framework for the initial Beta as the savings we observed in that

area were not too dramatic. We are planning on doing this prior to production. In fact the JS Framework code will (in all likelihood) be a single compressed and obfuscated file.

In addition to the performance gains we are looking for, the new architecture will allow us to add features quickly and the team is very eager to get on with those activities now that we have the new technology stack in place.

Thank you for your valuable feedback, the team is really excited about delivering the best reader technology possible and we simply can not do that without this information.

Sincerely,

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Tim Walker
Director Online Applications, NewsGator