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 = Networking =
+Networking covers several areas that are important to improving experiences in web browsers.  In particular, there's a decent amount of work that can be done to improve performance.  During 2012, we would like to be able to deploy SPDY, which offers significant performance improvements to end users on sites with many resources, as well as better resource management for servers.
+While SPDY's benefits are useful for sites that have SPDY-capable servers, most of the rest of the web still will run off HTTP for the foreseeable future.  We've got some innovative ideas around how to deploy HTTP Pipelining, which would give many of the benefits that we can get with SPDY, but that will actually work with most of the web as its deployed today.  Users will definitely be able to feel improvements from HTTP pipelining, especially for anyone using a high-latency mobile connection or over a trans-oceanic link.
+In addition, in order to support a richer and more seamless media experience there's work that needs to be done to support the emerging DASH-for-WebM standard.  This will let the browser and server adapt to changing network conditions, start a video faster and adapt quickly to changes in resolution.  (Like, when you change from in-a-page to full screen.)
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