Well, technically, all the collapse does is change the name of one html container. If the whole page has to be reloaded to do that, and if every reading page reload means a fresh query and construction process, then yes that might be too expensive. I'm hoping one of the hardware people can answer this. If it's done by the not-reloading method, that should be a lot lighter, and we just need to figure out some way to make this work for the screenreaders, too.
... maybe WAI-ARIA has something we can use, actually. *goes to look that up* --ER On Apr 16, 2009, at 2:20 PM, [email protected] wrote: > That sucks! :< > > Oh well. XD Do you think it would very costly to implement the > collapse (or cut) in the first place? Strictly from an economical > pov, less so a "is this evil?" perspective. Because if it's too > costly, then the discussion can just kind of stop right there, right? > > ~kali > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Emily Ravenwood > <[email protected]> wrote: > Usually, with expand-collapse, the content has actually all been > loaded already--it's just the display that's affected. > > --ER > > > On Apr 16, 2009, at 2:11 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Here's another thing to consider, I think. Would it be > computationally less expensive for dw to auto-collapse/cut entries > that exceed a certain length in order to display it on an flist? > In which case wouldn't dw want to do this for economical reasons? > Maybe it should be a partial-collapse, so you can still get an idea > of what might be going on, and then an expand button to see the > cuts "as the poster intended", and then you'd be navigating to the > post to see what's under the cuts, anyway. Or is the re-expand > function costlier than what can be saved resource-wise by the > initial collapse? (or is the initial collapse costly because it > needs to evaluate each post? XD) > ~kali, laggy because she's reading from digest (ppl are chattery > today!) > > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
