RE: [ResourcePriorities] Scripts and integration with HTML spec

On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Tobin Titus wrote:
>
> As always, you are more than welcome to participate here so that your 
> thoughts are reflected in the HTMLWG.  If you have additional use cases 
> or feedback, they are more than appreciated.

I don't particularly personally care one way or the other about the 
features involved here. The only reason I'm here is that I have a bunch of 
feedback on the HTML spec asking for features that overlap with the 
Resource Priorities spec, and I'm trying to work out whether I should wait 
for the Resource Priorities spec to address them, then merge it all into 
HTML, or whether I should just go ahead and address them directly in the 
HTML spec, and ignore the Resource Priorities spec.

I would like to make sure that we don't end up with conflicting 
requirements, or a weird inconsistent design overall (with some elements 
working one way but others working another), as might happen, for 
instance, if some browser vendors decide to follow one spec, and others 
decide to follow another, which is the risk if I pick the latter strategy 
of ignoring the Resource Priorities spec.

To this end, here are some questions to which answers would help determine 
how I should proceed:

- Does the Resource Priorities spec have browser vendor buy-in? Which 
vendors are on board?

- What's the implementation status of the Resource Priorities spec?

- If this work happens in the Resource Priorities spec, which hooks do you 
need in the HTML spec so that we can make sure the requirements in the 
Resource Priorities spec are well-defined in terms of the HTML spec's 
algorithms? (e.g. in script loading and execution, img loading, the 
<object> processing model, etc)

- Is the Resource Priorities spec work intending to address the use cases 
Q to Z described in this e-mail?:
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2013Aug/0277.html

- In that same e-mail, there is a proposal (search for "Here's a 
proposal"). Are there use cases that that proposal does not handle but 
which the Resource Priorities spec will handle?

- How will the Resource Priorities spec interface with the <img> 
processing model, in particular, with the changes expected as a result of 
these bugs?:
   https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24711
   https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24958
   https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17842

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