On 19 Nov 2002 at 11:12, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > Ugh, the worst of the offenders. There are no forms on the Onion's > website, yet they still need to rely on this pods://avantgo/back syntax? > Useless. On that page, _ALL_ articles reference index.html, and to all > articles, index.html is their parent. The << "The Onion" link that brings > you back could just as easily been a link to index.html, just like the > _millions_ of other fully functional websites around the world do it. I > guess this is the AvantGo'ish hack for history.back() in Javascript, and on > this site, is a completely moot example, since it doesn't actually explain > the use of it any further.
I agree 100%. The only possible reason that I can see for it, is that it is one less link to queue, because it isn't a true hyperlink, it is an embedded command. I don't know how it is in AvantGo, since I haven't used it in about a year, but in Plucker, many of the sites require breadth first, and breadth first maintains a queue of all links until the end until it sees if it has already been retrieved. So in the onion case: -With regular links to index.html: 10 extra links are queued and get time is spent checking, and seeing that it already been downloaded. -With "back" commands: no extra links queued, no memory required to store this link until the end. It is bit dubious though as far as whether functionality goes though. Best wishes, Robert _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
