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    [greg-dev] Link prefetching

    Does anyone have any strong views on link prefetching hints? Currently I
    view my feeds folder-by-folder. After reading each folder, I click mark
    as read and then it goes off to the next folder. If in the time I took me
    to scan a folder, the browser would use idle time to prefetch the next
    page, it would be useful. The cons are that it would increase bandwidth
    usage. 
    
    Currently mozilla browsers support the rel=prefetch tag for links. Google
    uses it sometimes, so that you can prefetch the top search result. 
    
    I was thinking of putting navigation links for the next and previous
    folders and categorys (we currently have it only for items and channels). 
    
    And after that, Depending on what you guys think we could add prefetch
    links to the next folder either in the code (with a YACO?) or via a
    plugin. 
    
    Sameer
    
    Posted by Sameer D'Costa [reply] at Tue Sep 13 19:29:41 CEST 2005