Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-images] Add a way to indicate that a CSS image should be decoded asynchronously

@Crissov

> For HTML content images, the assumption for default behavior is that they are important and should be decoded synchronously. For CSS styling images, the opposite assumption should be true, i.e. default to asynchronous decoding.

@Nadya678 

> But data-urls in CSS should be decoded synchronously by default. They are embedded in CSS for this reason.

There is a proposal for (potentially CSS) [placeholder images](https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3631). _If_ this becomes reality, I believe placeholder images should default to `async`.

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Received on Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:41:36 UTC