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by speleding 5374 days ago
Breaking the HTTP GET having no side effects is important for page speed up utilities. Those try to predict what you will want to click next and GET a bunch of resources behind your back in anticipation. Stuff would show up in your news feed that you never clicked.
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wycats 5374 days ago
This is precisely why those kind of page speed up tools never took off. Chrome now has a mechanism for a page author to explicitly request this behavior, but in the general case, it has never worked.
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speleding 5370 days ago
They still might: Have you seen Amazon Silk? http://amazonsilk.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/introducing-amazo...
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