2010/12/15 Adam D. Ruppe <destructiona...@gmail.com>: > 4) The scripts might fetch the message after the one you click on as well, > just > ajax getting the next document in line then doing nothing with the result. My > server code would be configured to send the proper cache headers, meaning > when you > click the link to actually view it, it is pre-loaded in the cache, and thus > loads > instantly. A lot of websites do it for images, why not documents too? This > would > keep the user visible latency to a minimum while browsing messages.
Gmail does preload all unread messages plus the last message in each thread. It also preloads the first few words of every message as a preview. I'll give you that it could have fetched everything, though. Torarin
