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title: "What is the difference between HTMl5 Application cache and regulat HTML browser cache?"  
description: "What is the difference between HTMl5 Application cache and regulat HTML browser cache?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-08-29  
updated: 2020-09-17  
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category: "html5"  
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# What is the difference between HTMl5 Application cache and regulat HTML browser cache?

The new HTML5 specification allows browsers to prefetch some or all of a website assets such as HTML files, images, CSS, JavaScript, and so on, while the client is connected. It is not necessary for the user to have accessed this content previously, for fetching this content. In other words, application cache can prefetch pages that have not been visited at all and are thereby unavailable in the regular browser cache. Prefetching files can speed up the site's performance, though you are of course using bandwidth to download those files initially.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

The new HTML5 specification allows browsers to prefetch some or all of a website assets such as HTML files, images, CSS, JavaScript, and so on, while the client is connected. It is not necessary for the user to have accessed this content previously, for fetching this content. In other words, application cache can prefetch pages that have not been visited at all and are thereby unavailable in the regular browser cache. Prefetching files can speed up the site's performance, though you are of course using bandwidth to download those files initially.


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