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Re:Instant Loading Web Apps with an Application Shell Archit... by untog on Friday November 20, 2015 @11:32AM (#10602051)
Yes and no. The key here is that it isn't a webpage, it's a webapp. So it can do things like preload resources that aren't used in the current page but will be used in the next screen. And preload the HTML for those screens.
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Re:Instant Loading Web Apps with an Application Shell Archit... by StavrosK on Friday November 20, 2015 @12:18PM (#10602372)
You can do that with HTTP too, check out the cache manifest.
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Re:Instant Loading Web Apps with an Application Shell Archit... by untog on Friday November 20, 2015 @12:47PM (#10602571)
I know. This is an extension of that idea into something that isn't awful.
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Re:Instant Loading Web Apps with an Application Shell Archit... by andrewguenther on Friday November 20, 2015 @04:35PM (#10604031)
Cache manifest has been deprecated in favor of app cache
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Re:Instant Loading Web Apps with an Application Shell Archit... by StavrosK on Friday November 20, 2015 @04:43PM (#10604075)
The cache manifest is part of app cache.
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