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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: The auto-cache feature I asked about...
From:       dep <dep () snet ! net>
Date:       2000-03-16 3:03:51
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Chris Lee wrote:

[a bunch of stuff in an attachment having to do with a browser 
caching function that transparently d/ls links on a web page as that 
page is being viewed, to give the impression of a greater connect 
speed]

if somrthing like this were implemented, it would certainly need to 
have a switch to disable it -- there are some isps in the world that 
charge by the amount of data that are transferred, and going ahead 
and downloading links, the majority of which would never be followed, 
would be expensive to users who have such isps. additionally, we'd 
soon have browser caches full of crap from the advertisement links on 
pages. and there are many of us who have links that we go directly 
to, and go no further.

then there's the matter of people who use their browsers to download 
files. how nice for them, getting to do battle with the caching of 
everything else on the page!

in short, it sounds like something frought with danger and 
impracticality. 

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dep
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