Re: [whatwg] Fetch Objects and scripts/stylesheets

On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> > Why not:
> >
> >    var mystyle = E('link', { rel: 'stylesheet', href: 'my.css', whenneeded: true });
> >    document.body.appendChild(mystyle);
> >    var myfetch = mystyle.fetch;
> >    ...
> >
> > ...where "E()" is some mechanism to easily create new elements (we need
> > one of those regardless), and "whenneeded" is some attribute that controls
> > the load policy (and in this case, tells it to not load yet, since I
> > presume that's what you're going to do next with the "myfetch" variable)?
> 
> Because that does not give you access to the additional parameters of
> Fetch: http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#requestinit (And this will grow
> with parameters such as omitReferrer.)

Why would you not be able to set them on the "myfetch" variable in the 
snippet above?

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