Re: [whatwg] Preloading and deferred loading of scripts and other resources

2014-09-02 Thread Yoav Weiss
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: [snip] >load-settings=""A JSON-encoded dictionary to pass to the Request >constructor. > > I'm not a big fan of JSON attributes for this purpose, for a couple of reasons: * They're likely to add implementation com

Re: [whatwg] Preloading and deferred loading of scripts and other resources

2014-09-02 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 9/2/14, 4:34 AM, Yoav Weiss wrote: * They're likely to add implementation complexity, since these instructions must be read by the preloader, which at least for Blink & Gecko is on the parser thread, and cannot "do" JS AFAIK. Fwiw, in Gecko it could, but it would add some overhead to that th

Re: [whatwg] Preloading and deferred loading of scripts and other resources

2014-09-02 Thread Yoav Weiss
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 9/2/14, 4:34 AM, Yoav Weiss wrote: > >> * They're likely to add implementation complexity, since these >> instructions >> must be read by the preloader, which at least for Blink & Gecko is on the >> parser thread, and cannot "do" JS AFAIK.

Re: [whatwg] Preloading and deferred loading of scripts and other resources

2014-09-02 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Yoav Weiss wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > [snip] > > > >load-settings=""A JSON-encoded dictionary to pass to the Request > >constructor. > > I'm not a big fan of JSON attributes for this purpose Nobody is, as far

[whatwg] Removing ARIA mappings from the HTML standard in favor of a separate doc

2014-09-02 Thread Domenic Denicola
Over in [1] Steve proposes moving the UA requirements for accessibility mapping out of W3C HTML. The corresponding section in WHATWG HTML is [2]. Recently I tried to do implementer-ey things [3] but found the delineation between authoring and UA requirements in that section very confusing. So I

Re: [whatwg] Removing ARIA mappings from the HTML standard in favor of a separate doc

2014-09-02 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Domenic Denicola wrote: > > What do you think? I could very well be missing something; this world of > accessibility specs is pretty new to me... I think it would make a lot of sense to move all the ARIA-related requirements (UA and author) to a separate spec. I think the au

Re: [whatwg] Removing ARIA mappings from the HTML standard in favor of a separate doc

2014-09-02 Thread Domenic Denicola
From: Ian Hickson [mailto:i...@hixie.ch] > I think the author and UA requirements are tightly related, however (e.g. the > ARIA spec term "strong semantics" implies both), so I don't think it makes > sense to move one and not the other. The problem is, there are multiple sources of truth for t