On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Brion Vibber vibber@aludra.usc.edu): <span class="newlinkedge">[</span> <a class="newlink" href="..." title="Edit 'Page title'">Page title</a> <span class="newlinkedge">]<a href="..." title="Edit 'Page title'">?</a></span>
Ick. I wouldn't want to add that much overhead on each link; it seems OK to do it for numbered headings, but not for links. I'm really quite tempted to just eliminate the "?" links, and I'm really curious if they are liked enough to justify them.
The Dutch folks explicitly requested that question links be retained as the default there. There may be some resistance.
There are of course other options that affect content, particularly the TeX-related selections.
Yeah, that's a tough one too, but it's only on a small number of pages, so even if it makes those pages uncacheable, we'll probably still benefit from the cache. And I'm not sure we can't work around or eliminate some of those options as well.
Pages with TeX are a small minority, and it would not be a significant problem to simply mark any page with TeX as uncacheable. It might be nicer to allow them to be cached, but only for users using the default TeX options... Inclusive special cases can be worried about later, though; it's just the exclusive cases we should start with -- things to not cache because they're trouble.
Another odd option is "show hoverbox over wiki links". IIRC, unchecking this will remove the 'title' attributes from the <a href>s. I don't know if that's something that can be done by CSS... I also don't know if anyone uses or wants the option.
There's also the stub detector. Difficult to CSSize that, as the threshold is user-selected. Simplest to disable caching for the rare users who use it.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)