31 Hmm

What is a BFU? And let’s not forget that a lot of alternative User agents do support LINK to start with, and the dropdown only appears when DOM is available. This means that the chances of a User agent creating the dropdown not being able to render it is very slim.

posted at 04:33 am on June 29, 2004 by Chris

32 Opera 7

Opera 7 already has this feature…..

posted at 05:11 am on August 19, 2004 by Rolex Replica

33 congratulations for the article.

congratulations for the article.

posted at 02:33 am on October 20, 2004 by diseño web

34 LINK attribute

i think this is a really cool idea, but the main problem i have with it isn’t the HTML bloating or the non-javascript browsers and whatnot. My question is: don’t browsers preload anything within a link attribute? anything in a link tag will be preloaded because of the html DOM. if there’s a way to turn off that option in the HTML somehow, that would make this much more worthwhile for me. i personally wouldn’t want to link a multitude of documents only to make my visitors wait for them to preload.

that’s really my one question, unless there’s a way to link to a document that contains all the links, a table of contents or index or sorts…i dunno, my mind is running away with the possibilities.

(i don’t know if anyone pays attention to these threads anymore, since the article’s a bit old…but there seems to be a tiny issue with spam up there.)

thanks.

posted at 05:16 pm on November 13, 2004 by lunchmeat

35 reply to lunchmeat

some browsers may preload certain types of links, but unless the link is something like a stylesheet or a favicon etc… it will not delay the display of the page. but to my knowledge, most will not be preloaded at all.

i beleive in all newer gecko based browsers you can make the browser preload/prefetch by using:

<link rel=“prefetch” href=”/foo.html” />

again, this will not delay the display of the current page. it will be processed after the current page is done displaying.

heres an nice link

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/Link_Prefetching_FAQ.html

posted at 08:21 pm on November 17, 2004 by rehfeld

36 It doesn't work

I see nothing, and I get several error messages in my Internet Explorer for Mac.

posted at 04:35 pm on November 20, 2004 by Neal Krouse

37 reply to rehfield

thanks, very helpful. i might use that with my small site, which is only a few pages really.

posted at 01:32 pm on November 27, 2004 by lunchmeat

38 Related – s5 by Eric Meyer

Creatively related (but developed independently):

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

Eric Meyer’s standards-based slide show (11-12/04), like Christian’s drop-down (5/04) splits one page into many “slides” and automatically generates a dropdown menu by which to navigate from one “slide” to another.

As you might expect, the differences between Eric’s and Christian’s ideas are as interesting as the similarities.

posted at 09:09 am on December 4, 2004 by apartness