demo · v143

Viewport dwell

The exact mechanism v143 changed: on mobile, "eager" eagerness now triggers prefetch / prerender once a link has been in the viewport for a short dwell time (no hover required). Scrub the dwell time and watch which links activate.

activated: 0 / 10 targets

Scroll the panel below. Each card that stays fully in view for at least the dwell threshold flips green — that's what mobile "eager" now does.

the call

<script type="speculationrules">
{
  "prerender": [
    { "source": "document",
      "where": { "href_matches": "/posts/*" },
      "eagerness": "eager"
    }
  ]
}
</script>

/* v143 (mobile): "eager" now also fires once a link has been in
   the viewport for ~300 ms — no hover required (touch devices
   don't have hover) */

why this angle

The other concept lets you swap eagerness levels. This zooms in on what specifically changed in v143 — the dwell trigger on mobile — and lets you tune the threshold to feel what's expensive vs free. It's a desktop simulation of a mobile behaviour because mobile-only demos are hard to show on a laptop.

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