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

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Post by CraftThatBlock »

noisem4ker wrote: post #13

>it triggers the page load when the user starts pressing their mouse This breaks the standard GUI interaction model. Buttons are typically triggered on mouse-up events, not mouse-down, and there's probably good reasons for that. Any client-side hacks that attempt to improve the perceived page speed are somehow bound to break something. If there really is a simple way, it's already been implemented at the browser leve…

This is incorrect. It starts loading on mouse down, but still acts on mouse up.

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

#33

Post by cirno »

twillin wrote: post #4
kurtextrem wrote: post #2

This is a clever trick (using mousedown to trigger a click), but breaks drag & dropping links, drag & dropping links to new tabs. and there is also a thing I tend to do: If I notice I pressed the mouse button down on the wrong link, I move the cursor away from that link and let the button go up on the correct or in free space, so the browser doesn't navigate (not sure how common this behaviour is, though)

Regarding clicking on the wrong link, then moving the cursor away and releasing the button, I do this often as well.

On Twitter just accidentally clicking down on the mouse anywhere, I have to move my mouse outside of the browser window before releasing it because anywhere else is likely to have side effects.

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

#35

Post by mcintyre1994 »

CraftThatBlock wrote: post #31
noisem4ker wrote: post #13

>it triggers the page load when the user starts pressing their mouse This breaks the standard GUI interaction model. Buttons are typically triggered on mouse-up events, not mouse-down, and there's probably good reasons for that. Any client-side hacks that attempt to improve the perceived page speed are somehow bound to break something. If there really is a simple way, it's already been implemented at the browser leve…

This is incorrect. It starts loading on mouse down, but still acts on mouse up.

It doesn't - try drag-dropping one of the links in their sidebar into a new tab. You get the page changed before you lift the mouse button.

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

#36

Post by baud147258 »

twillin wrote: post #4
kurtextrem wrote: post #2

This is a clever trick (using mousedown to trigger a click), but breaks drag & dropping links, drag & dropping links to new tabs. and there is also a thing I tend to do: If I notice I pressed the mouse button down on the wrong link, I move the cursor away from that link and let the button go up on the correct or in free space, so the browser doesn't navigate (not sure how common this behaviour is, though)

Regarding clicking on the wrong link, then moving the cursor away and releasing the button, I do this often as well.

Same. But then I often right-click and select open in an incognito window

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

#37

Post by [deleted] »

noisem4ker wrote: post #13

>it triggers the page load when the user starts pressing their mouse This breaks the standard GUI interaction model. Buttons are typically triggered on mouse-up events, not mouse-down, and there's probably good reasons for that. Any client-side hacks that attempt to improve the perceived page speed are somehow bound to break something. If there really is a simple way, it's already been implemented at the browser leve…

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

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Post by seabass »

CraftThatBlock wrote: post #31
noisem4ker wrote: post #13

>it triggers the page load when the user starts pressing their mouse This breaks the standard GUI interaction model. Buttons are typically triggered on mouse-up events, not mouse-down, and there's probably good reasons for that. Any client-side hacks that attempt to improve the perceived page speed are somehow bound to break something. If there really is a simple way, it's already been implemented at the browser leve…

This is incorrect. It starts loading on mouse down, but still acts on mouse up.

No. Mouse down on any of the sidebar links on that site to see for yourself.

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

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Post by tjeannin »

CraftThatBlock wrote: post #31
noisem4ker wrote: post #13

>it triggers the page load when the user starts pressing their mouse This breaks the standard GUI interaction model. Buttons are typically triggered on mouse-up events, not mouse-down, and there's probably good reasons for that. Any client-side hacks that attempt to improve the perceived page speed are somehow bound to break something. If there really is a simple way, it's already been implemented at the browser leve…

This is incorrect. It starts loading on mouse down, but still acts on mouse up.

Not the case on the https://instant.page website. If you mouse down links, the page changes.

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

#40

Post by boublepop »

noisem4ker wrote: post #13

>it triggers the page load when the user starts pressing their mouse This breaks the standard GUI interaction model. Buttons are typically triggered on mouse-up events, not mouse-down, and there's probably good reasons for that. Any client-side hacks that attempt to improve the perceived page speed are somehow bound to break something. If there really is a simple way, it's already been implemented at the browser leve…

There’s a joke about two bankers walking down wallstreet. One says to the other: “my gosh look, there’s a 100$ bill on the ground”. The other without looking down turns to him and says: “Impossible! iIf there was 100$ on the ground someone would have picked it up!”
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