[Design] [cosmo] Server Restraints and the Dashboard

[Matthew Eernisse]

Mikeal Rogers wrote:
> We could do like google reader does.
> 
> Get a set amount of later items, 20 or 30, then when the user scrolls 
> near the bottom of those items we send another query for another 20 or 
> 30 and load them in dynamically.

I've never used Google reader -- does it have any kind of sorting 
capability for the list of entries?

The progressive loading technique (a.k.a. the 'endless single page') 
would still mean that effectively we're loading (pretending to load) the 
entire data set, sorted according to some criteria. So re-sorting would 
still require a trip back to the server, which is one of the things 
we're trying to avoid in order to increase performance and limit the load.


Matthew