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Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by Gaelan »

scarejunba wrote: post #152
hombre_fatal wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're talking about evidence in a discrimination court case that points to an IP address associated with a company that visited /family.htm around the time someone applied for a job they didn't get. Like, that person went through their blog's access.log when they got home, defeatedly looking up IP addresses, and going "aha, jackpot!"? And everyone in the company hovers links to be sure they don't go to /as-a-black-ma…

Yes, I can't see how anyone could think this is sane in any sense. Brb putting my kids in my GitHub profile picture.

A while back I saw a chrome extension that hid profile pictures on GitHub specifically for this reason.

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by lucb1e »

It doesn't seem to work for me. There are no JavaScript errors in the console* but the that says "test your clicking speed" doesn't even have an event attached to it. Hovering over anything for multiple seconds doesn't fire any requests in the network panel.

Anyone else having this issue?

* Well, there's this, but I assume it's not dependent on google... `Loading failed for the with source “hxxps://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-134140884-1"`

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by franciscop »

jfoster wrote: post #46
ams6110 wrote: post #36

Not sure how I feel about this. I often hover over a link to see where it is linking to, see if it has a title, etc. But that's probably not typical of most users. And I don't do it on sites I use often and am familiar with.

There's usually no penalty, though. You hover, and the page preload begins. Unless you're trying to keep your data usage to a minimum, there's no disadvantage to you.

And if it only preloads the HTML and not related files, it's still going to be minimal

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by bherms »

cjblomqvist wrote: post #179

It seems everybody is missing this but this could actually slow down your experience, and I'd actually guess it will in some scenarios (ie. not only a theoretical situation). Considering a user hovering over a bunch of links and then clicking the last one, and doing this in a second. Let's assume your site takes 3 sec to load (full round-trip) and you're server is only handling one request at a time (I'm not sure how…

It actually cancels the previous request when you hover over another link

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by 6c696e7578 »

Raphael wrote: post #161
6c696e7578 wrote: post #157

Nice idea for HTTP/1.x, however, isn't this what HTTP/2.0 [1] is meant to achieve by pushing components at the user? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2_Server_Push

Would you push everything? Or just hovered links?

In all honesty, personally I'd push all adjacent page content. HTML compresses very well, its minor compared to JS and page images. If the user proceeds to a pushed page, they'd just be waiting for the browser to do the render and collect images. It'd be a compromise, since most images are probably going to be standard page furniture, so likely cached already.

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by dieulot »

lucb1e wrote: post #182

It doesn't seem to work for me. There are no JavaScript errors in the console* but the that says "test your clicking speed" doesn't even have an event attached to it. Hovering over anything for multiple seconds doesn't fire any requests in the network panel. Anyone else having this issue? * Well, there's this, but I assume it's not dependent on google... `Loading failed for the with source “hxxps://www.googletagmanag…

Are you using an older browser? It sounds like your browser doesn’t support JS modules.

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by ThomPete »

glacials wrote: post #163
ThomPete wrote: post #159

Is this kind of like turbolinks which Basecamp uses?

Similar in effect, but not in method. Turbolinks fetches pages after a click like normal, but swaps the body tag from the new page into the current page, cutting local render times.

Interesting. So this could be used internally in a web app i guess.

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by CydeWeys »

cjblomqvist wrote: post #179

It seems everybody is missing this but this could actually slow down your experience, and I'd actually guess it will in some scenarios (ie. not only a theoretical situation). Considering a user hovering over a bunch of links and then clicking the last one, and doing this in a second. Let's assume your site takes 3 sec to load (full round-trip) and you're server is only handling one request at a time (I'm not sure how…

Per my cursory reading of the source code it looks like it might only prefetch one link at a time: https://github.com/instantpage/instant.page/blob/master/inst...

If that's not how it works, it could easily be modified to add a throttle on how many links it will prefetch simultaneously.

Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Post by sgustard »

ezequiel-garzon wrote: post #172
xpose2000 wrote: post #108

I've been testing it for the past 30 minutes or so and found that it doesn't cause the same problems that InstantClick did. (Which was javascript errors that would randomly occur.) I'll limit it to a small subset of users to see if any errors are reported but there is a good chance this could go live for all logged in users. Maybe even all website visitors if all goes well. Seems to have no impact on any javascript,…

Thanks, how did you find out about data-no-instant tag?

https://instant.page/blacklist
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