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Re:Show HN: Tricking the user to access history using CSS an... by mschuster91 on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @12:48AM (#7871887)
> although really they should really be maintaining the visit history themselves, as they do with Reddit Gold users

Another HTTP request between me and the content I want. Another 1s of RTT (UMTS link)... No.

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Re:Show HN: Tricking the user to access history using CSS an... by DavidSJ on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @01:47AM (#7871998)
This can be done in parallel with JS, without using an HTTP redirect.
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Re:Show HN: Tricking the user to access history using CSS an... by mschuster91 on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @11:49AM (#7873244)
Nope, if you fire the AJAX request directly on the onclick event, chances are high it will not be submitted/processed before the browser navigates away...
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