- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:32:05 -0800
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote: > 2013-11-12 10:14, Anselm Hannemann wrote: >> no, a preload scanner will never (okay, never say never) interpret CSS. >> This is against the rule of it to improve performance before interpreting >> layout. > > This whole thing is about scanning *something* in early phase, so if some > rules prevent from using style sheets for something that is really a > stylesheet matter (unless we regard it as a client/server negotiation > issue), change the rules. The "rule" that Anselm refers to does not exist. We can make the preload scanner smarter if we want to. It's just a matter of understanding the engineering constraints under which it operates. Given that I wrote the preload scanner that's used in WebKit and Blink, I have a pretty good grasp of those constraints. :) Adam
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