Prefetching in Comic Strip plasmoid

[Miha Čančula]

2010/1/5 Chani <chanika at gmail.com>

> On January 4, 2010 15:22:24 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On January 4, 2010, Miha Čančula wrote:
> > > I hope this is the right list for this, as I saw in the archives there
> > > was already some talk about the applet.
> >
> > this would be nice, i think, though it's obviously up to the comic strip
> > widget maintainer. :) questions:
> >
> > * is there a need for it to be optional, or is it fine to simply always
> > prefetch?
>
> fetching 0-3 comics instead of always fetching exactly one? I say there's
> no
> need for an option.  you'd have to have a pretty limited device or
> connection
> for the download of one or two images to be an issue.
>
> >
> > * if i start at today's strip and start working my way backwards, should
> it
> > pre-fetch the previous comic instead of the next comic? iow, should it
> > prefetch in the direction i navigate until i change navigation?
>
> why not just prefetch both - keep a cache of the current, previous and
> next?
> of couse 99% of the time you'd already have the comic for one direction
> since
> it'd be one you recently visited.
>

This is  good idea. I think one comic in each direction should be enough for
everybody.

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