Blackberry Pre-Fetch Page

Question

Hi There,

We've got a small mobile webpage and we'd like to pre-fetch a remote page (given a URL) while the user is reading the first page.... this is for performance reasons.

The problem is that many Blackberry browser versions don't support iFrames or Object tags, and setting up a proxy to ajax inject the remote page's HTML into a hidden DIV seems really hackish and sketchy.

Are there any other suggestions?

Thanks, Chad

Answer 1

I wouldn't say Ajax is hackish. It's the main thing going for web 2.0. Loads of sites use it, you just need to make sure its locked down so that its secure and cannot be hacked.

Just brainstorming for an alternative... when that slow data is loaded can you store it in the database? Perhaps use ajax to query every x seconds to see when the data is available... when it is reload the entire page with the new data inserted. This would avoid inserting into a div, but does not avoid the ajax.

Answer 2

You could do this by writing an application using the BrowserField. Fetch and display the first page, then fetch the data to the second page and wait for the user action to display it.

Answer 3

didn't use a pre-fetch. no great ultra cross-compatible solution.