There was some talk about a better aproach to rendering and caching at LJ in
january, see http://www.livejournal.com/community/wikitech/2943.html. I would
like to repeat the suggestions I made there, so maybe someone can have a look at
implementing them some times. Its basically about using redirects and CSS to
allow all users to be served the exact same HTML code. So here goes:

• The NewTalk-Natification could be implemented by CSS: It would always be

present in the HTML, but invisible (set to "display:none"). An additional small
CSS could be included that is always pulled from the apache and just makes that
message visible when needed.

• innocence suggested in the IRC to handle "My Talk" / "My Contributeion" etc by

pointing them at a special page that automatically redirects to the correct user
page. That sounds good...

• The only problem remaining is "red links". This could be solved using css and

redirects too: first, let the links point to the normal URL, without the "edit"
action - when a nonexistant page is visited, simply redirect to the edit-page.
That would be a change in semantics, but it would be worth it i think.

• The coloring of dead links could be done via a separate css file that is not

cached and always created dynamically by the apaches. This CSS would need to
define a separate class for every link-target, maybe named along the lines of
"link_to_Foobar" - that'S not very elegant, but it should work, i think...

So i belive it *is* possible to use full HTML caching *all* requests. What do
you think?

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