- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:05:55 -0800
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote: > On 2/10/10 2:44 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> ASYNC can be implemented in most browsers actually. > > Yes, I was pretty careful with my use of "in a cross-browser manner"... ;) However even if Firefox (and maybe Opera) had behaved the same as webkit/IE, I still think that the async attribute would have been useful to implement as it allows websites to use a much cleaner syntax. Ultimately it all comes down to how common we think a use case is and the cost of not supporting that use case directly, vs. cost of forever expanding and supporting the addition to the platform. I think it would be interesting to discuss resource downloading in a bit more generic way. I.e. ways to postpone the download of certain resources, prioritization of various resources, etc. That way we can probably increase the number of use cases supported, without significantly increasing the added complexity to the platform. / Jonas
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