- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 01:32:35 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Chris Lilley wrote: > > > > Currently this section vaguely mentioned possibilities but makes no > > testable normative requirements on rendering user agents. > > Testing this would require instrumenting the user agent, so that it > reported back how much data was fetched and whether the hints were > stale; also telling it to ignore any throttling or Quality of Service > load balancing that was being performed, be the only application > performing network requests, and so on. > > It would then certainly be possible to have some test cases with known > correct prefetch data and others with known stale prefetch data; to > verify that the stale data was correctly detected, and to verify that > the correct amount of data had been prefetched. > > Its doable, for implementors, but not suitable for end-user testing. As currently specified, it's not even testable for the UAs, since there are no testable normative requirements. I am not going to persue this particular issue. In my opinion the current state of the spec makes it useless and the feature will never be properly implemented (since indeed there is not even a definition of what it would mean for it to be properly implemented), but the success or lack thereof of this part of the specification is not my concern. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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