- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:29:07 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
On 1/18/10 5:53 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> For what it's worth, my personal preference is that the @doc be parsed/loaded >> asynchronously, just like @src would be. At least in Gecko's case we could >> actually pretty much reuse our normal pageload code, with just a small shim to >> create a "network load" that feeds in the @doc data, to implement that. I >> can't speak to other implementations. > > This is more or less what I had in mind, except that I would blow away the > old browsing context and create a new one, rather than navigating the > previous one. I believe this is what happens with setting src="", too. I'm not sure what the distinction is here... Can you point me to the relevant spec sections? > Unless someone can indicate a reason why not to do this, I expect that > I'll make about:blank asynchronous, and only make initial browsing context > creation synchronous (like it already is -- this doesn't involve actually > loading about:blank using the regular "navigation" steps). That sounds probably fine to me, depending on when loads of about:blank are triggered by the UA and when they aren't. -Boris
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