I got some feedback on my last e-mail to the effect that having the
proposal sandwiched between the rationale and the examples of how it would
be used made it hard to find, so I'm reproducing the proposal here
(slightly updated based on feedback):
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > I really like your proposal for "as="... Concretely it could look
> something
> > like this:
> >
> > > href="/some/asset.css"
> > as="stylesheet"(used to initialize default priority, headers,
> > etc)
> > load-set
On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Ilya Grigorik wrote:
>
> Better or worse is not the point. I think the current proposal fails to
> address the larger underlying problem.
If it did, then that would be "worse".
> The platform is missing a lower-level primitive (declarative and
> imperative) that is able to
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > The platform is missing a lower-level primitive (declarative and
> > imperative) that is able to explain resource loading with the same
> > expressive power as requests initiated by the browser itself.
>
> That isn't a problem.
>
I don't fol
