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You surf to a website, you wait till it's
loaded, 30 seconds pass while you
browse
over the page, then click on a hyperlink
or
picture. You already know: you have to
wait again...
Why not have an option added to your
browser to tell it to use the 30 seconds
(or
so) of (already paid!)
DSL bandwidth to
download/cache as much as possible of
the
underlying pages?
Flash Surfer's Pre-Fetch Feature
http://66.102.9.104...cache+browser&hl=en
Page 4 [[ sctld ], Jan 11 2005]
baked
http://www.geocitie...mozilla_preload.GIF
Mozilla [chud, Jan 11 2005]
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I had a Web Accelerator program 10 years ago that did exactly this. Baked. |
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In connection with these automatisms (which I agree have been around for some time), I've got a question. |
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Some links do things. For example, the "for"/"against" links on this page imply that by following them, you're expressing an opinion; the "delete" links on your own posted ideas here or on people's annotations delete objects from the database. |
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How do those preloading browsers avoid "doing" all kinds of things when their user just wants to read? |
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......including any number of undesirable pop-ups, premium rate autodiallers, IQ tests, other peoples web speeder uppers!
(edit) - the google cached PDF in [sctld]'s link tells of a pop up defeater. Dunno about the rest though. |
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// How do those preloading browsers avoid "doing" all kinds of things // as a (very) simple rule, perhaps they just don't follow links with querystrings ? |
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How do spiders avoid doing the same ? |
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