On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, The Cunctator wrote:
I similarly much prefer the question-mark links.
I'm always suspicious of interface changes that are "necessitated" by technical difficulties. Laziness is a virtue of the programmer, but so is hubris.
Hubris is a virtue now? All right! :)
If worse comes to worst, we could always cache two versions.
I don't think it would be worth caching two versions. The vast majority of visits are going to be from anons or users who are on the default preferences, so that's the case to optimize for; the performance hit of maintaining two sets of caches pages may well be more than the performance hit of always regenerating pages for the minority option group.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)