On 17/02/11 10:55, Carcharoth wrote:
I just read this mini-essay here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Chemist...
It is about the effect on the parser of large navboxes (and of other templates). It is a bit technical, but I thought it might be of interest.
And I don't know how I ever missed this:
If navboxes could be loaded dynamically, with AJAX, then editors could put as many links in them as they liked without DoSing the servers.
That's not to say having huge category listings in collapsible boxes at the end of an article is a good idea, in terms of style and usability. But it would be nice to separate the performance issue from the style issue.
-- Tim Starling