- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:01:50 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > > Why not just have the UA run in a high quality mode the first time it > > is painted on, but if the script tries to paint again within a certain > > amount of time, switch to high speed? > > > > This makes sense. > > However, there is still a potential use case for speed vs quality hints: > when the author wants to treat some content on the page as visually more > important than other content. For example, you might have a gallery page > with a bunch of unimportant bling around the actual image/canvas you > care about. > > I'm unsure whether that's realistic enough to justify supporting hints. I think we should put off adding a feature to handle that case until we've got a site that would actually benefit from it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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