CORRECTION TO THIS BY AUTHOR: There is a timer, it just waits until all the normal images load (and I was too lazy to wait). Upon refreshing, the MXHR stream was 10.3x faster on my FF.
Hmm, I tried 10-20 times and MXHR was always slower. Sometimes a full half-second slower. I had some times approaching 1-second load time, meanwhile the "normal" load was consistently between 350-400ms.
I know it's just a proof of concept and yes, YMMV, but couldn't they come up with a demo that clearly showed this new technology they invented was worth using?
Re:Digg's New DUI.Stream and MXHR
by mikeytown2 on Thursday April 23, 2009 @04:58AM
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Use this trick instead of CSS sprites.
But if you try this in a non-IE browser: http://demos.digg.com/stream/imageDemo.html
The image demo performs amazingly well! I wish there was a timer for that one but its extremely fast.