HTML5 question
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- fyoucher11
Not entirely sure how you would get 50 files for a standard banner ad and still fit within a standard banner file size spec (unless each text character is a separate file?). Rich media banner I can see happening but there's a 100 file limit for DoubleClick. You had mentioned GDN so I believe the limit is 15.
You could create an SVG sprite sheet for your visual assets to lower the amount of assets being used and to get within file limit spec. However, that may be a major pain the ass to do all of those in Edge. I'm not sure what your 50 assets consist of though or how a 15-sec banner would even have that many assets (unless we're talking rich media).
(I don't use Edge btw, use GSAP)
That method you still wouldn't have one file like Swiffy. Swiffy base64 encodes all image assets and uses canvas for vector shizz and includes all scripts etc in the HTML. Even if you were to somehow base64 encode in Edge you'd be looking at about a 30% increase in file size -- probably not what you want to do in a banner.
As you had mentioned, you could take all of the external JS/CSS and put them inline in the HTML file using style or script tags but you'd still have a ton of files leftover.