Dancer wrote:
> Yee Man Chan wrote:
> > >
> > > A pre-fetch has no way to know what link might be "expensive" to follow in
> > > terms of resources of the site it is looking at.
> >
> > What I am proposing is to prefetch links referenced by SRC and nothing else.
> > These links are automatically requested on user's behalf, so if they are
> > expensive, users can't avoid it anyway unless they abort.
>
> Not one hundred percent correct. They _may_ be requested automatically on the
> user's behalf. They may not be, also (depending on their browser settings,
> depending on whether there is another proxy downstream of you which may be
> caching some or all of the SRC objects, and depending on whether they click
> through elsewhere before the page has even finished loading)
Or they may be conditional based on javascript.
Many documents use javascript to be self-writing and have dozens of different
forms. I suppost a full HTML parse avoids that one though.
David.
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