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Re:Show HN: JS library to make your website instant by soundoflight on Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:49AM (#7201665)
Prefetching really shouldn't be blindly applied to everything as users may have bandwidth limited. Even though your implementation is better than browser prefetch on users it does take the choice away from the user unless individual sites make it easy for users to opt out.
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Re:Show HN: JS library to make your website instant by dieulot on Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:58AM (#7201702)
I think that if you stop hovering fast enough and the request is cancelled, you’ll end up only sending headers, thus not affecting bandwidth that much. Not sure though.

If not the case, note that it’s just HTML we’re wasting. In the grand scheme of things it seems to me it would not have that much of an impact on bandwidth usage.

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Re:Show HN: JS library to make your website instant by dclara on Saturday February 08, 2014 @02:34PM (#7202249)
I think it may impact on the bandwidth usage on mobile significantly.
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Re:Show HN: JS library to make your website instant by samhoggnz on Saturday February 08, 2014 @05:23PM (#7203063)
On mobile you don't have a hover state so surely this would be less of an issue.
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Re:Show HN: JS library to make your website instant by soundoflight on Monday February 10, 2014 @10:17AM (#7211463)
Mobile as in PC over cell network you do.
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