On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:26:43AM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
Can someone tell me how important this last reason is? How bad is it to transclude frequently used templates? Could it be improved? Is this going to go away? Permanently substing a large number of templates to solve a short-term performance problem is, well, bad.
That's roughly the same argument adduced to explain why WAP sucks, and it's just as cogent here as it is there.
Never permanently "fix" performance problems by translating them out of existence; it will bite you when the machines catch up.
ObWikitech: I've Wikipediizing from my spandy used Blackberry lately.
Reading works nicely; the page layout is pretty well taken for non-CSS devices. Writing less so, though I forget precisely what broke.
Cheers, -- jra