Tuesday, January 17, 2012

[ttsphlhn] Infinite HTML

Consider a modification of HTML and HTTP to permit "infinite" documents.  Instead of crashing the browser, the browser only loads a screenful (or so) at a time.

It is the byte-range selection of HTTP likely supercharged, with ability to select portions of an HTML document tree.

Currently, this is implemented with AJAX, for example the infinitely scrollable Google Maps.

Previously : html filesystem, automatic tree pruning.

Inspired by Haskell's lazy data structures.

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