Chrome Networking: DNS Prefetch & TCP Preconnect

This is actually quite fascinating. The lengths the Chrome team is going to, in the name of page-rendering speed, is really astonishing.

This got me thinking...<p>When TLS, cookies or same origin policy are not a concern, why not resolve resource domains on the server side and output for example &#60;img src="hxxp://10.0.0.1/picture.jpg"&#62; to avoid that extra client side DNS request completely?