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Reasoning behind the async attribute

From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:38:21 +0300
Message-Id: <DCBC317F-A635-4B6B-8086-B8B62442EABF@iki.fi>
To: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>

It seems to me that async is a new thing and isn't describing existing  
behavior. Correct?

I searched the obvious places and couldn't find a discussion leading  
to its addition. Why was it added and does it have implementor interest?

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

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