An other approach might be to render all teasers in the html page from which you show randomly one by js script (jquery): cache- friendly, no ajax, ..
You could implement that as a special carousel (no pages, scrolling, ..) Philipp On 24.02.2010, at 19:09, Ryan Gardner wrote: > > The teasers in the STK are pretty cool, but I think they would be cooler if > there was a set of teasers and one of them displayed at random on the page. > The downside that I see to this is that it would not play nicely with the > page cache, so my next thought was to build an AjaxTeaserLoader that would > basically be a container that would take a bunch of teasers (similar to how > to the carousel or other teaser groupers take multiple teasers) and it would > make an ajax call to get the content of the teaser when the page loads and > then the server would return a random teaser down to it. > > I'm sure I'm not the first person who has thought of this. Has anyone done > this yet? > > It doesn't seem like it would be that hard at all to do - and the benefit of > loading the teasers via ajax is that you could keep the main page all cached > and then just have the dynamic parts loaded. If you thought you would be > showing the same teaser a lot of times, you could even make those pieces > cacheable so the next time it was to display a certain teaser it would > display it from the browser cache > > Ryan > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > For list details see > http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
