I'd hope with prefetch that we'd keep the data around in the memory cache
waiting for the request.
On Apr 18, 2015 7:07 AM, "Glen Huang" <curvedm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Didn't know about this trick. Thanks.
>
> But I guess you have to make sure the file being prefetched must have a
> long cache time set in the http header? Otherwise when it's fetched, the
> file is going to be downloaded again?
>
> What if you don't have control over the json file's http header?
>
> On Apr 18, 2015, at 10:12 AM, Elliott Sprehn <espr...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> <link rel=prefetch> does that for you.
> On Apr 17, 2015 7:08 PM, "Glen Huang" <curvedm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One benefit is that browsers can start downloading it asap, instead of
>> waiting util the fetch code is executed (which could itself be in a
>> separate file).
>>
>> On Apr 18, 2015, at 8:41 AM, Elliott Sprehn <espr...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Glen Huang <curvedm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Basic feature like this shouldn't rely on a custom solution. However, it
>>> does mean that if browsers implement this, it's easily polyfillable.
>>>
>>
>> What does this get you over fetch() ? Imports run scripts and enforce
>> ordering an deduplication. Importing JSON doesn't really make much sense.
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 17, 2015, at 9:23 PM, Wilson Page <wilsonp...@me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sounds like something you could write yourself with a custom-elements.
>>> Yay extensible web :)
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Matthew Robb <matthewwr...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I like the idea of this. It reminds me of polymer's core-ajax component.
>>>> On Apr 16, 2015 11:39 PM, "Glen Huang" <curvedm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Inspired by HTML imports, can we add JSON imports too?
>>>>>
>>>>> ```html
>>>>> <script type="application/json" src="foo.json" id="foo"></script>
>>>>> <script type="application/json" id="bar">
>>>>> { "foo": "bar" }
>>>>> </script>
>>>>> ```
>>>>>
>>>>> ```js
>>>>> document.getElementById("foo").json // or whatever
>>>>> document.getElementById("bar").json
>>>>> ```
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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