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bitdamaged
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 100101010011 <-- right about here
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted posted 03-31-2005 22:11

Alright Google springs to the forefront of web tricks again using the ability to prefetch links with Firefox

Google Explains

Look at the webmaster link to see how to integrate this feature into your website.

Basically it allows you to prefetch pages in the browser while it's not doing anything, so when you click on a link the page is already loaded in cache and pops up instantly. Not all google search results do this, but search for "stanford", sit for a bit and then click on the first link.

And it's apparently standards complient not a browser specific trick



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

Slime
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Massachusetts, USA
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted posted 03-31-2005 22:17

Won't that cause web site owners to think that people are clicking links to their site when they're not really? =(


 

cycus
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: New York, NY
Insane since: Nov 2000

posted posted 03-31-2005 22:38

Looks like it. The webmaster FAQ says the header is marked as such "X-moz: prefetch". At least you would know if you log that data.

reisio
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Florida
Insane since: Mar 2005

posted posted 04-01-2005 16:25

Proprietary code: bad.
Google mixing with Mozilla: bad.

Google better watch out or Firefox/etc will just get forked into something better and kill the existing project.

Tyberius Prime
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Germany
Insane since: Sep 2001

posted posted 04-01-2005 17:04

yeah, and if everybody's prefetching pages, everybody will be looking through their fingers... because the server is overloaded...

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