[css-cascade][Editorial] "avoid retrieving resources" with MQs in @import

Hi,

In its definition of @import, css-cascade has this sentence:

> So that user agents can avoid retrieving resources for unsupported
> media types, authors may specify media-dependent @import rules.

I think this is misleading and should be removed. Media Queries are not 
about resources retrieving, but conditional application of rules and 
stylesheets in the cascade.

css-cascade should introduce them as such, and only secondarily say that 
UAs *may* deprioritize or otherwise delay the retrieving of resources 
that do not apply. (Although CSSOM maybe constrains this.) UAs *may* 
still choose to load them in case they start to apply later.

Resource loading is undefined in CSS 2.1, and I believe it should stay 
that way in Cascade Level 3. We had discussions a few months ago about 
adding an explicit "defer" flag for resources that do not apply. Please 
start a new thread if you want to discuss that further.

Cheers,
-- 
Simon Sapin

Received on Monday, 29 July 2013 12:01:58 UTC