On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 07:54, Tomos at Wikipedia wrote:
I often think that viewing the latest version of the
page after just editing
it is not necessary.
When I press "Save" button, all I need is the message that "data is now
saved," not the whole article/ page.
Now you can't follow any links or double-check your work without
clicking to view the page. I'm not sure this is a win.
And I am speculating that if the page is not displayed
after saving, it
would save some server load.
We've got about a 100:1 ratio of page views to edits. With 400-600 page
views per minute, a few more doesn't hurt us much.
If you'r editing anonymously, your immediate load also will be cached,
saving server load the next time an anon visits the page.
If you're really worried about load, consider that every time you save a
page, it parses the page and *throws the output away* in order to update
the link tables, _then_ redirects you to view the page. Find a way to
re-integrate the save and view steps so a second render won't be
necessary but without the POST-leads-to-reload-difficulties problem
(which the redirect works around).
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)