> > Hi, > > Today, I heard about a JavaScript library called InstantClick > (http://instantclick.io/). Basically, it's based on the principle that > latency is responsible for a lot of the Web's slowness. It also > considers that there are about 250ms between hovering over and > clicking on a link. Therefore, it starts pre-loading the page on > hover, and then switches to it via AJAX when the user clicks the link. > It can also do this on mousedown only, which causes no additional > server load and still provides a performance boost, according to its > website, similarly to Rails' turbolinks functionality. > > Is there any chance this could work on MediaWiki? > > Regards, > -Kudu. >
This is pretty neat. Some a/b tests on mobile would help us understand just how much extra data this would cause people to consume vs. how much time it saves them. On desktop, I bet a combination of this with something like cursor proximity based events [1] would be interesting to look into. [1] https://github.com/padolsey/jquery.fn/tree/master/proximity-event _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
