[whatwg] <a onlyreplace>
Daniel Glazman
daniel.glazman at disruptive-innovations.com
Thu Oct 22 07:47:37 PDT 2009
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> I actually consider that a loss. It's addressing a different problem,
> you see. HTMLOverlays is basically client-side includes. While you
It's client-side only because I implemented in JS that way! Explain
me what prevents from implementing server-side?
> I think you misunderstand the mechanics of @onlyreplace. It doesn't
> change anything when you first load a page, and it shouldn't be at all
> similar to prefetching. It only operates when you click on a link
> with the @onlyreplace attribute. The browser then makes an ordinary
> request for the desired page, parses it with scripting disabled, and
> locates elements with the given ids to swap into the old page.
Exactly. And I said this is a good start and not enough. We could do
simple AND more powerful than that.
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