Re: [whatwg] Fetch Objects and scripts/stylesheets

On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> >>>    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)?
> 
> Apologies for missing myfetch. That could work potentially. Not
> entirely sure what kind of object it would return, but I guess we can
> think of something.

It would presumably return the same object that was being proposed for the 
other way around (the proposal where you call "as_stylesheet" or whatever).

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