[Conkeror] conkeror roadmap

[John J Foerch]

Brian May <bam at snoopy.apana.org.au> writes:
> I wonder if anything could be done to improve the speed of drawing the
> numbers by the links? Especially for websites with a large number of
> links, such as http://www.theage.com.au/.
>
> At the moment, if I want to activate a link at the bottom of the page,
> I have to wait several seconds for the page the numbers to display. I
> get sick of this (one of the main reasons I prefer mouseless operation
> is because it should be faster), so I try to use the mouse and click
> on the link. However, by the time the numbers are drawn, the page
> moves slightly, and I end up getting the wrong link. So I have to go
> back to the previous page again, and restart the process.
> -- 
> Brian May <bam at snoopy.apana.org.au>

Yes.  The numbering module should perform better than the
numberedlinks module.  The basic problem is that numberedlinks makes
the links visible while they are being generated.  This means that
gecko has to recompute the page layout for every link that is added.
The fix is to keep them invisible with css until they are all
generated, then display them all at once.

This may be a simple fix, but I opted to scrap the entire
numberedlinks and start from scratch, since there are other problems
in that module.  If anybody feels like going for a quick, temporary
fix, and can hack up a patch, I would be happy to put it in.  I can't
predict how long it will be until `numbering' is ready, since it is
one thing among many that I'm working on.

--John