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Making best use of cache for high performance website
Use URLs consistently
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On-demand UI loading on AJAX websites
AJAX websites are all about loading as many features as possible into the browser without having any postback. If you look at the Start Pages like Pageflakes, it's only one single page that gives you all the features of the whole application with zero postback. A quick and dirty approach for doing this is to deliver every possible html snippets inside hidden divs during page load and then make those divs visible when needed. But this makes first time loading way too long and browser gives sluggish performance as too much stuff is on the DOM. So, a better approach is to load html snippet and necessary javascript on-demand. In my dropthings project, I have shown an example how this is done.