[josm-dev] Cleaning up the motd

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Igor Shubovych wrote:

>> Also it would be nice, it the motd would get downloaded
>> asynchronously.
>
> +1
>
> I was wondered why JOSM starts so slowly.
> One day I didn't have Internet at all and it started in a second.
>
> Maybe it is better to cache the MOTD, and if server doesn't reply for 5
> seconds show old cached MOTD.
> Or show old till the new one is downloading.

We already have a class for that cached downloading (used in validator and 
presets e.g.). When e.g. the download period is set to 1 day for the main 
page and 7 days for the others then this may speedup loading a lot. 
Patches welcome.

Ciao
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