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Re:Show HN: JS library to make your website instant by ivanca on Saturday February 08, 2014 @12:23PM (#7201779)
Most times there are some few links that are very frequently clicked on; for example in Hacker News is usually the "next page" and the "threads". So if there is not one already there should be a way to specify some (obligatory?) preload pages.
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Re:Show HN: JS library to make your website instant by CoryG89 on Saturday February 08, 2014 @02:14PM (#7202174)
I think you should utilize the prefetch behavior of the link tag for situations such as these. No need for JavaScript at all.
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Re:Show HN: JS library to make your website instant by k__ on Saturday February 08, 2014 @02:40PM (#7202285)
Could you elaborate this, please.
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Re:Show HN: JS library to make your website instant by ivanca on Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:23PM (#7202518) 

    <link rel="prefetch" href="http://example.com/page2" />
More info at http://davidwalsh.name/html5-prefetch
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Re:Show HN: JS library to make your website instant by dieulot on Saturday February 08, 2014 @12:32PM (#7201805)
In my opinion even that is overkill. Remember, in most cases it’s already instant. The return on investment (speed/requests) abruptly declines with brute preloading.
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