Re: LINK only in HEAD?

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Steve Souders <souders@google.com> wrote:

> Given that most examples of Custom Elements are visible elements in the
> body and the spec doesn't indicate its example is in the HEAD, this example
> will likely increase the number of websites that put HTML Import LINK tags
> in the body.
>
> This has two downsides:
>
> 1. It's flagged as having errors using the HTML validator recommended by
> the WhatWG <http://validator.whatwg.org/>. (Compare the validation
> results for sync.php<http://html5.validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fstevesouders.com%2Ftests%2Flink-import%2Fsync.php>to
> sync-body.php<http://html5.validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fstevesouders.com%2Ftests%2Flink-import%2Fsync-body.php> where
> the only change is moving the LINK from HEAD to BODY.)
>
> 2. It's start the HTML Import download later causing rendering delays.
>
> I think it'd be better for the spec *not* to promote patterns with these
> negative outcomes. As author, could you change the example? Or at least add
> a note saying "this is in the HEAD - you don't want to put LINK tags in the
> BODY"?
>

Sure thing:
https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/commit/0bcd356901ead044ec3590ea1f27c21c42d2d9a0

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