On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Brion Vibber
<vibber(a)aludra.usc.edu>)u>):
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<a class="newlink" href="..." title="Edit 'Page
title'">Page title</a>
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Ick. I wouldn't want to add that much overhead on each link; it seems
OK to do it for numbered headings, but not for links. I'm really quite
tempted to just eliminate the "?" links, and I'm really curious if they
are liked enough to justify them.
The Dutch folks explicitly requested that question links be retained as
the default there. There may be some resistance.
There are of
course other options that affect content, particularly the
TeX-related selections.
Yeah, that's a tough one too, but it's only on a small number of
pages, so even if it makes those pages uncacheable, we'll probably
still benefit from the cache. And I'm not sure we can't work around
or eliminate some of those options as well.
Pages with TeX are a small minority, and it would not be a significant
problem to simply mark any page with TeX as uncacheable. It might be nicer
to allow them to be cached, but only for users using the default
TeX options... Inclusive special cases can be worried about later, though;
it's just the exclusive cases we should start with -- things to not cache
because they're trouble.
Another odd option is "show hoverbox over wiki links". IIRC, unchecking
this will remove the 'title' attributes from the <a href>s. I don't
know
if that's something that can be done by CSS... I also don't know if anyone
uses or wants the option.
There's also the stub detector. Difficult to CSSize that, as the threshold
is user-selected. Simplest to disable caching for the rare users who use
it.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)