Comment by gazchop
1 day ago
How else are you going to load a hideously incorrect AI summary block without your initial page latency being through the roof?
1 day ago
How else are you going to load a hideously incorrect AI summary block without your initial page latency being through the roof?
You could probably get it working with declarative shadow dom, streaming in the AI generated content at the end of the html document and slotting it into place. There are no doubt a lot of gotchas but at first glance it seems feasible. Here’s a demo I found of something like that: https://github.com/dgp1130/out-of-order-streaming
The example repo is a little confusing to me, since it seems to use client-side JS to demonstrate that it doesn't need client-side JS: "It bootstraps a service worker and [...] No client-side JavaScript!"
But I guess the point is that the code in the service worker could have been on the server instead?
The trick seems to be using a template element with a slot and then slotting in the streamed content at the end. But you could probably also do it using just CSS to reposition the content from the bottom to the top, similarly to how many websites handle navigation menus, assuming that the client supports CSS.
Iframes lazy
Object content as lazy
Embed lazy
Image lazy
Link rel=import (not support that widely though)
Heck if you wanted to get REALLY cute you go use multipart-mixed-replace headers.
Or SSE
now that i think about it you could do it quite nicely with svg's and foreignObject
iframes?
this is the only time in 15 years i've wished hn had a lol react. :D
Why?, iframes are Very much underappreciated