Is it possible to prevent content to be reloaded ?

[LilaRest]

Like the SwupScriptsPlugin with the 'data-swup-ignore-script' attribute in scripts tags, is it possible to insert specific attributes into link tags to prevent them to be reloaded ?

[LilaRest]

I've created a fork to implement this functionality : https://github.com/LilianCruanes/head-plugin
And also send a pull request.
See you.

[gmrchk]

Hey, thanks for the PR!

Can you explain a use case for this? If the tag is in the head tag of the page source, why wouldn't it be replaced by the head plugin? This would introduce an inconsistency from the actual page source, where I don't see reason, but maybe I'm missing something.

[LilaRest]

Hi ! Let me explain one of my use cases :
Jinja style templates (like Django's templates for example), allow users to create base pages from which others pages can inherit.
In the project on which I actually work there is a nav bar and only the content bellow the nav bar is replaced.
If the style of the nav bar isn't fixed we can observe a 'flash' effect during page's transition cause the navbar style is removed then re-applied.

It is also nice to have a 'general' style in which all common content is inserted, it reduces request's number as well as files' sizes and so increases speed of the website.

[gmrchk]

In case an HTML tag is present in both, current and future head tag, the plugin will compare the two, and won't replace it at all, so the blinking shouldn't occur. If some blinking is present, there is a bug in a plugin, or the HTML tags are not identical. I would need a demo to check what's the issue.

I'm guessing if we make it work as expected, this change in the plugin is not necessary.

[LilaRest]

Don't have time to deploy a demo, sorry... But I can say to you : Yes it is blinking and yes scripts was the same !

[gmrchk]

Double checked and the plugin seems to work as expected for me - if the style tag (like below) is present in both pages, the plugin doesn't replace it and no blinking is present, so I can't reproduce the problem.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/frontend/css/main.css">

Unfortunately, I can't help if I can't see the problem.

[LilaRest]

I will try another time on the project on which I'm currently working. I'll let you know

[gmrchk]

Please, feel free to open new issue if you happen to have a demo we could check.