You could look at how Wordpress has integrated Gears into its admin, it speeds up the process quite a bit. Certainly all the images and javascript in vBulletin should be moved to a manifest. You could also automatically sync threads or forums that a user has subscribed to to a local database, allowing lighting-fast (and offline, if so configured) searching.
In theory, the main display pages for vB could be generic HTML files using AJAX to populate the individual messages, threads and forums. With proper caching, this could be lighting fast and have fairly low network traffic. The downside is that you'd probably want to maintain a non-AJAX version for Search Engines, so you'd have to weigh if the speed increase is worth the increased complexity. But even getting the images and js into a manifest would be helpful. I hope you decide to integrate Gears into vB, thanks for looking into doing that. Tac On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Rob32UK <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am considering what benefit gears could bring to vBulletin, a > community (forum) software.... > > Obviously forum users would have to install gears and a vbulletin plug- > in would need to be made but i'm stuck with exactly what load / work I > should have vbulletin hand off to gears... > > I'm still a little confused with gears functionality and concepts to > know how to proceed. > > Hope someone has something to contribute :) > > Thanks >
