I'm seeing a slight performance boost in FF/Chrome. The effect seems to be a bit more pronounced in Opera. It's broken in IE (as if I had to say).

Edit: It'll be obvious when it works 'cause the address bar in your browser won't change.

I've had an idea for a while to accelerate page changes on one site with AJAX. This is what I came up with.

function getAjaxObject()
{
xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); //Decent Browsers
if (!xmlhttp || xmlhttp == undefined || xmlhttp == null) xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");  //IE7+
if (!xmlhttp || xmlhttp == undefined || xmlhttp == null) xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); //IE6-
return xmlhttp;
}

function loadPage(url)
{
xmlhttp = getAjaxObject();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
{
document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
processTags();
}
}
xmlhttp.open("GET",url,true);
xmlhttp.send();
}

function processTags()
{
var atags=document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (x in atags)
{
atags[x].onclick="loadPage('"+atags[x].href+"');";
atags[x].href="#"; //This also causes it to scroll to the top of the page.
}
}

processTags();

This basically replaces all the 'A' tags on a page with a call to an AJAX function that loads the new page w/o refreshing.

Obviously there are incompatibility issues with this. On Omnimaga, where I tested, posting is a bit wonky, you also can't click links to sites outside the current domain.

It is considerably faster loading pages for me, though.

Also, this doesn't take a considerable amount of real-world situations into consideration, so don't be surprised if it breaks more than it does good.

If you want to give it a try, here's the JS to paste in your address bar. This should, at least in theory, work with (most) any site.

javascript:head=document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];script=document.createElement('script');script.type='text/javascript';script.src='http://netham45.org/fastload.js?t=6';head.appendChild(script);void(0);

Or, click here.

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Instead of checking for 'End of /MOTD command', you should check for the number that is before it.

irc.server.net 376: End of /MOTD
IRC servers that run in different languages may change the End of /motd text, but the number will pretty much always be there.

http://www.mirc.net/raws/

Those are almost always better to look for than the text.

Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
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    End Sub
End Class
I used VB for mine.

Visit the Typing Test and try!

Beat that.

Fix'd. Not quite sure what happened, but the default value for one of the columns in the poll table got wiped.