Angel ,'Sleeper'
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
You can always change it back to a more manageable number when you've caught up. I had mine set to 10100 to try the threadsuck, but I changed it right back. And fifty at a time on a cable modem seems pretty quick, especially compared to 5 x 10.
edit: That said, I like your idea, too. Should be doable, no?
I'm on a slow dial up and I personally prefer 50 at a time (which is what I'm set to now) rather than 10. It does take less time in my head because it doesn't have to reload everything else. Plus if I hate, I can change it.
My figures give a value of roughly 0.8K per post, and an overhead of roughly 10K per page, so a fifty-post page would be the other side of 50K, which isn't great, but still pretty cool.
Even at 50K it loads much faster in the long term v the short term.
And, this increases my scrollability which is important to facilitate my skimmability.
That's about right. Natter 1 came in at 9058 KB for 10024 posts.
And, this increases my scrollability which is important to facilitate my skimmability.
Yup, very important when mearaing, because it means less bandwidth used when going back, given that php always recreates the page, even when using the back button.
given that php always recreates the page, even when using the back button
Minor nitpick, -- not for everyone. We had a discussion about this a while ago when the point was about the post-box-content disappearing.
It's an issue to do with a combination of browser, ISP and cache(s), and I don't think we ever quite got to the bottom of it.
I googled it a bit, and it seems that php is supposed to work that way, and it's only in Opera that it doesn't. This is considered a 'feature' of Opera, by which I mean that it's a bug, but most people would prefer it to work that way.
edit: On the caches, php wants a server side cache.
DX, can you give me some links on that behaviour?
A feature I've tucked away in my brain to implement sometime is to be able to skip to a particular time/date in a thread.
it seems that php is supposed to work that way, and it's only in Opera that it doesn't.
Standing right here!
MacOS and IE.
Nearly all Australian ISP cache the hell out of content though, because it's so likely to be US content it makes sense.
Also the browser has settings for how often it checks documents, right? Once a session/Every time/Never, in my browser.