[Seaside] Something seaside developers need to be aware of

[Blanchard, Todd]

http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/google_web_accelerator_hey_not_so_fast_an_alert_for_web_app_designers.php

Google's web accelerator <http://webaccelerator.google.com/>  seems like a good thing for the public web, but it can wreak havok on web-apps and other things with admin-links built into the UI. How's that?

The accelerator scours a page and prefetches the content behind each link. This gives the illusion of pages loading faster (since they've already been pre-loaded behind the scenes). Here's the problem: Google is essentially clicking every link on the page - including links like "delete this" or "cancel that." And to make matters worse, Google ignores the Javascript confirmations. So, if you have a "Are you sure you want to delete this?" Javascript confirmation behind that "delete" link, Google ignores it and performs the action anyway.

We discovered this yesterday when a few people were reporting that their Backpack <http://www.backpackit.com>  pages were "disappearing."


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