Tim Starling wrote:
: VFD puts great strain on the server as it is, because the server is
: forced to regularly render the whole page, consisting of a few megabytes
: of HTML. If you can break it down into small sections, I think that will
: be a win for performance, even if there is less opportunity for caching.
Tim, this is being bitterly resisted by VFD habitues on VFD talk. Please
stop by and give numbers if needed to convince:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Votes_for_deletion#Can_we_pleas…
Jamesday may also care to weigh in - VFD is composed of metatemplates,
which are a known noxious entity.
Please let them know that insisting their 1.5 megabyte page be the
*default* deletion portal is actually a bad idea.
- d.