Predictive cache techniques

An article of manufacture comprising a storage medium containing instructions that when executed by a processor enable a system to:

• present a document for an active web application within a display area of an electronic display, the document having a set of list items stored by a list data object;
• select a set of presentable list items from the list data object for presentation within the display area for the electronic display;
• and
• cache a set of predicted list items from the list data object in a predictive cache, the predicted list items contiguous to one or more of the presentable list items.

A mobile computing device, comprising:

• a web browser;
• an application management framework implemented within the web browser, the application management framework to execute an active web application, the application management framework comprising:
• a document rendering module communicatively coupled to the active web application, the document rendering module operative to present a document for the active web application within a display area of an electronic display, the document having a set of list items stored by a list data object;
• and
• a list manager module communicatively coupled to the document rendering module, the list manager module operative to select a set of presentable list items from the list data object for current presentation within the display area for the electronic display, select a set of predictive list items from the list data object for future presentation within the display area for the electronic display, and send a control directive to load the set of predicted list items from the list data object to a predictive cache.