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The case of reloading only parts of a page (while retaining boilerplate and other already-received content) could trivially be solved if HTML could make use of
by tannhaeuser 9y ago
The case of reloading only parts of a page (while retaining boilerplate and other already-received content) could trivially be solved if HTML could make use of entities (a concept from SGML on which HTML is based) in combination with HTTP cache controls. But once Netscape brought us JavaScript, any effort in this direction was doomed because it wasn't essential in an already Turing-complete scripting environmemt. As recently as earlier this year, HTML Imports were removed from the spec I believe (not entirely sure about this).