----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roan Kattouw" <roan.katt...@gmail.com>

> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Daniel Friesen
> <li...@nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote:
> > The central notice banner is only shown to logged in users. Why are
> > we
> > even loading the notice in a separate out of band http request. And
> > not
> > bothering to cache it at that.
> >
> It is cacheable (public, max-age=300, s-maxage=300) but for some
> reason my browser (FF 6.0.1) isn't caching it. There are all sorts of
> reasons CN needs to load the notice using JS, at least for anons. For
> logged-in users, I guess it might be possible to move the logic
> server-side, but that would be kind of stupid if you can't also do
> that for logged-out users. A height reservation would probably be
> best.

If you could do that so that it worked for people with unexpectedly large
type sizes set in their browser (ie: and didn't spill out of your box overtop
of the rest of the page) that would be great.

I'm not sure it's possible, though; is it?

Cheers,
-- jr 'Ctrl-+++++' a
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