[Bins] Re: prefetching html vs prefetching image

Martin Michlmayr tbm at cyrius.com
Fri Nov 4 19:51:31 GMT 2005


* Vineet Kumar <vineet at doorstop.net> [2004-03-06 01:57]:
> I agree that the <link rel="next" ...> tag is very useful.  In fact,
> bins already makes use of this tag to point at the next HTML page.  My
> original point was that prefetching the next HTML page saves almost
> nothing, whereas prefetching the next image is a huge savings.  As it
> is, when the user clicks "Next", the page loads quickly but the user
> still has to wait for the image to download.
> 
> I don't know (and haven't tested) what would happen if specifying 2
> <link rel="next"...> links, one for the html and one for the image.
...
> This is simply an alternative to the javascript preloading bins already
> has, but which applies to Mozilla browsers rather than
> javascript-enabled browsers.

Does anyone know whether two "link rel" elements are allowed, and has
anyone implemented this for some templates already?  (I looked at joi
and swigs but they don't.)
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Martin Michlmayr
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