I was reading John Resig's Browser Page Load Performance post earlier today and followed up from there on the concept of Link prefetching. Currently supported by Firefox 2+, Link prefetching is a browser based mechanism for fetching "future" content. Considering I wrote (and ultimately scrapped*) similar functionality for my gallery pages, I was obviously intrigued.
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This will hopefully be the first of a continuing series of smaller code articles where I share techniques I (and my team) use on a daily basis. I take this stuff for granted so I think it might be beneficial to share since (a) I might be able to improve what I do by receiving feedback on techniques I use and (b) some of the things I do, while old hat to me, might be new and useful to other people in the field.

We'll see how it goes.
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