Re:Ask HN: Review my rapid AJAX idea
by daleharvey on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @06:06PM
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to me this sounds a lot more complex than just writing the javascript in the first place, I need to generate 2 pages and make sure they are virtually identical, I can see making a minor differences that suddenly invalidates a diff on an entire page and ends up generating 5x more data than a plain full page load would have
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That's right: if the diff takes more time then actually loading a new page, it doesn't make sense at all. However, I could see the diff script intelligent enough not to be slowed down by a minor difference. Anyways, this library would mostly make sense on pages with a very similar layout.