Re: [ResourcePriorities] Scripts and integration with HTML spec

On Mar 18, 2014, at 6:19 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Arvind Jain wrote:
>>> 
>>> It definitely makes sense to spec this straight in the HTML spec. Ian,
>>> would you take it over then?
>> 
>> I'm happy to work on this kind of thing in HTML. My first priority in this
>> space will be related to scripts.
>> 
>> I would encourage authors and implementors to describe their needs and use
>> cases on the WHATWG list (http://www.whatwg.org/mailing-list#specs). In
>> particular, I'd like to hear what exactly are the problems with today's
>> HTML that need solving.
> 
> The things I'm most excited about are:
> * Being able to specify that an image/video should only be downloaded
> "on demand" (aka "lazily"), i.e. when it's in view, or about to be in
> view. Use case is both to lower bandwidth in cases of long pages where
> the user doesn't always scroll to the bottom, as well as make sure to
> fill the network pipe with the most important resources first.
> * Being able to specify that a stylesheet should not block rendering.
> Use case is to preload stylesheets that will be used by content that
> isn't rendered in the initial view, but that might be rendered later.
> * Being able to specify some form of prioritization for resources like
> (non-blocking) stylesheets, (non-blocking) <script>s, images, video,
> iframes etc. Use case is making sure to fill the network pipe with the
> most important resources first. Possibly a simple prioritization like
> "needed for initial rendering/not needed for initial rendering" is
> enough, possibly there are needs for more finegrained prioritization
> like "needed for initial rendering/needed for page feature X that is
> commonly used, needed for other".
> 
> / Jonas
> 

Rather than posting everything to the mailing list, perhaps it would be useful to setup a Use Cases/Requirements doc on GitHub that we can submit PRs against. Does the web perf group have a GitHub account or organization under which we can put the repo? If not, I’m happy to spin one up and start adding people to it.

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