On 9/27/09 4:15 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Michael Dale<md...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> ...right... we would want to avoid lots of live hacks. But I think we want >> to avoid lots of live hacks anyway. A serious javascript bug would only >> affect the pages that where generated in thous hours that it was a bug was >> present not the 30 days that your characterizing the lag time of page >> generation. >> >> Do you have stats on that?... its surprising to me that pages are >> re-generated that rarely... How do central notice campaigns work? > > They insert the notice client-side using JavaScript. The HTML served > is thus always the same.
Yeah, it's kind of tricky to do right; but if you can keep the loader consistent and compatible, and have predictable expirations on the JS, such things can work pretty reliably. -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
