On 11/12/09 10:43 PM, Marius Gundersen wrote:
A better solution to your problem is to load fragments of the entire document using AJAX and then insert those fragments into the main document, when they are needed.
This may well be slower than just loading the document and being done with it. In fact, the slow part of the html5 spec single-page load is precisely the operation you describe: dom fragments being loaded via ajax and sprinkled about. It's slow in all browsers (e.g. in Safari this operation takes about 2x as long as the pageload itself).
You rarely need to see the entire document at once anyways.
Until you try to do a "find in page"; something that needs to be done with depressing regularity for specs.
-Boris
