That sucks! :<

Oh well. XD  Do you think it would very costly to implement the collapse (or
cut) in the first place?  Strictly from an economical pov, less so a "is
this evil?" perspective.  Because if it's too costly, then the discussion
can just kind of stop right there, right?

~kali

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Emily Ravenwood <[email protected]> wrote:

> Usually, with expand-collapse, the content has actually all been loaded
> already--it's just the display that's affected.
>
> --ER
>
> On Apr 16, 2009, at 2:11 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
>  Here's another thing to consider, I think.  Would it be computationally
>> less expensive for dw to auto-collapse/cut entries that exceed a certain
>> length in order to display it on an flist?  In which case wouldn't dw want
>> to do this for economical reasons?  Maybe it should be a partial-collapse,
>> so you can still get an idea of what might be going on, and then an expand
>> button to see the cuts "as the poster intended", and then you'd be
>> navigating to the post to see what's under the cuts, anyway.  Or is the
>> re-expand function costlier than what can be saved resource-wise by the
>> initial collapse?  (or is the initial collapse costly because it needs to
>> evaluate each post? XD)
>> ~kali, laggy because she's reading from digest (ppl are chattery today!)
>>
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