- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:28:09 -0800
- To: Anthony Ricaud <anthony@ricaud.me>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Anthony Ricaud <anthony@ricaud.me> wrote: > And when a new format will come out, every UA will download this new format since it knows nothing about it. That's no worse than today's world, where every UA downloads *every* resource. > Plus, it ties the URL to the file format which is not a good idea. Theoretically, sure, but in practice the file extension is a very strong indicator. > Wouldn't it make more sense to use the same logic as @font-face : format() ? Only known formats are downloaded. Possibly. That's a bit clumsier in the functional notation, but it might work in a different syntax. ~TJ
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