Re: caching (was Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: Help API for GNOME 2.0)



On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 06:29:05PM -0400, David Merrill wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 05:35:04PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:37:44PM -0600, John Fleck wrote:
> > > So are you suggesting a simple rendering of the entire document, or
> > > the use of the rootid param to display sub-sections?
> > 
> >   Well I'm just suggesting you try both and try to see how it
> > affects the user experience, then select the solution accordingly.
> > I'm just afraid that for small docs, chnking will slow down the
> > initial rendering and force the user to click too many times
> > before getting to the information. An automatically generated index
> > on top of a single flat file may actually be faster to render and
> > for the user to get to the informations.
> 
> FWIW, the really large LDP docs are all using <book>. Maybe displaying
> <article> in a single page and <book> in one page per chapter would be
> a good compromise?
> 

How about <book> in one page per chapter and !<book> as a single
page. (in other words, anything else, as people can use other root
elements besides an <article>)

Cheers,
-- 
John Fleck
jfleck inkstain net (h), http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/




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