Re: [resource-hints] first spec draft

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:49 AM, <bizzbyster@gmail.com> wrote:

> The use of the attribute "context" in the LINK element is confusing to me.
> Your doc includes a reference to the FETCH spec (
> http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org) for a definition of context. But then in
> that table it says the context of a LINK rel=subresource should be "sub
> resource".
>

WIP... it's not clear to me that subresource/prefetch (currently specced
context's) should be there:
https://github.com/igrigorik/resource-hints/issues/6#issuecomment-50368295


> Also, in your resource-hints doc, you indicate that context is mainly
> provided for priority. But do we also want to use it to provide a way to
> set the Accept header values in the preloaded request?
>

It should work as expected... e.g. context=image would advertise correct
accept headers sent by the UA for image requests, and so on.

ig