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ND-JSON only works for aggregations of data where the chunks are small. If you're building a news site you can't really chunk a single article up into ND-JSON. If you want a transition between pages then you can't use full navigations, and if you want to keep streaming the iframe hack seems to be the only solution.

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If you're building a news site you can't really chunk a single article up into ND-JSON.

One paragraph per chunk?

Heh, right. And if you've got something nested like a quote, a list, an aside etc etc, how do you represent that as a flat stream of chunks?

I suppose you could implement some kind of SAX-like thing expressed as ND-JSON…

…orrrrrr avoid all that by streaming HTML.

well, blockquote, ol, ul, aside, etc etc, are all flows, and as such are not permitted inside of p, which can only have phrasing content

right?

Right, but they can all have paragraphs (and many other elements) as a descendant.

Well, personally I'd say "keep the styling and scripting to a minimum, don't make it a single-page app at all, and just load the whole page when you need it."

But if I were charge of a magazine and ran it that way, it would quickly die from lack of ad revenue, oh well. :/

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