- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:07:51 -0500
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 1/22/14 8:14 PM, Bruno Racineux wrote: > Meanwhile, is there a way in which all vendors can prevent their > pre-loaders from preloading (and loading at all for that matter) any <img> > that has either: An html5 hidden attribute This is feasible. > or display:none This is not really. The preload scanner has no idea bout styles. > I think it's safe to say that, for the browser to load assets marked as > 'display:none;' makes little sense <script> elements are display:none, note. So are <link> elements. Both get preloaded. And people do in fact depend on display:none images being preloaded on the web today. People paint those images to canvases, unhide them and expect them to show immediately, etc. -Boris
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