- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:37:05 -0700
- To: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
It also doesn't cover things like the UA already having too many connections to the server already and has to wait until other downloads finish. I'd suggest wording like: "When the src attribute is set the a graphical UA should begin download as soon as possible. This is to allow the author to pre-cache images to be later used in animations or for other dynamic changes." The 'should' instead of 'must' allows for things like user preferences overriding the behavior. / Jonas Jason White wrote: > Section 3.14.2 (current CVS checkout): > "When the src attribute is set, the user agent must immediately begin to > download the specified resource, unless the user agent cannot support > images, or its support for images has been disabled." > > This appears to exclude the possibility of a UA that allows the user to select > interactively which images to download. Lynx supports this by treating iamges > as links, with @alt as the link text. Other user interfaces are conceivable, > however. > > My question is whether the spec should exclude this type of behaviour, as it > appears to do, or whether the "must not" in the above should be qualified > further. > > One could construe "its support for images has been disabled" as covering this > case, but I think this exception is more likely to be interpreted as applying > only when image rendering has been turned off entirely, leaving open the issue > noted above.
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