Re: [whatwg] resource hints and separating download from processing

2014-08-08 Thread bizzbyster
+1 to breaking the dependency between fetching the resource and how it is later used in the document. This type of “late binding” enables many page optimizations. Peter PS. My apologies if you’ve already seen a message saying similar. I’m not sure if the mailing list is accepting my messages o

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

2014-08-29 Thread bizzbyster
We need to bite the bullet and add a priority attribute and an expected-size attribute. Priority: The web server will often have information that allows it to know better than the UA about the priority of objects. Basing this on type is not super useful when we have only a few types and we ha

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

2014-09-01 Thread bizzbyster
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jSpWc6jkrUoYtGWcxev9Blkkv9RhoO1XtqinBvXqhgY/edit Would suffice for priority. Peter On Aug 29, 2014, at 9:59 AM, bizzbys...@gmail.com wrote: > We need to bite the bullet and add a priority attribute and an expected-size > attribute. > > Priority: > The web

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

2014-09-15 Thread bizzbyster
Different aspects of priority are expressed in some of Ian’s loadpolicy attributes (block, async, optimistic, low-priority). Currently web browsers use the type of loadable element to determine priority. In Ilya’s proposal this can be found in the “as” attribute in the case of LINK rel=preload.

[whatwg] Two cases of resource hints "used" in RT API

2014-09-15 Thread bizzbyster
that waterfall charts can visualize preload “hits”, meaning preloaded resources that are used by the browser. https://github.com/bizzbyster/ResourceHintsDocs/blob/master/Preload_Used_Waterfall.adoc Let me know if anyone has any comments, Thanks, Peter