On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Gavin Sharp <ga...@gavinsharp.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>> In this context, an app that performs in-place updates, as opposed to full >>> page reloads, when transitioning between different views. The views can >>> use >>> different JS, CSS, and so on. To achieve this, you have to build your app >>> in a very particular way. In the case of bugzilla, that would involve a >>> substantial rewrite of the app... you can't just drop in a few prerender >>> tags on the page and defer the rest to the browser. > >> The point of what Jonas and I are talking about is to avoid having to >> rewrite the app. > [snip] >> the app would need to implement a separate template page which knows >> how to load the barebone CSS/JS/images and then fill in the rest based >> on the information received from the controlling document. > > The argument being made is that what you describe here would be a > similar amount of work as "rewriting the app" (to be a single-page > app), at least for the specific page involved.
The last part is key. It's dramatically easier to rewrite just the bug-page to enable transitioning between individual bug pages. Rather than to rewrite all of bugzilla to enable transitioning between arbitrary pages in bugzilla. It's easier yet to write a bug-template-page that can transition itself to be an arbitrary bugpage than to enable transitioning between bug pages. Another point here is that with ServiceWorkers developers can get significant speedups prerendering aside if they create such a template page that can transition itself to be a bugpage. Finally, my argument is that with a relatively small addition to the platform we enable web developers to do this work if they want to. If they don't then it's no extra work for them. If we *don't* make this small addition to the platform then developers simply can't get any of the speedups that prerendering offers in these cases. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
