Hello. Can someone point where in the source code is the implementation of the subresources loading and some documentation regarding its implementation - as a queue or just child-threads or async functions?
The reason is that the current subresource loading seems to lack any prioritization and it often occurs that some external "1x1 pixel tracker" or other similarly unimportant page resources block the rendering of the page completely, and the user is left starting at "contacting ads.doubleclick.com" with a blank page. This is very frustrating as the page render as a whole then depends on the slowest part and cannot be possibly done faster by any optimizations in hardware or software on the part of the page owner. Thus, the proposition is this: 1. Render should only wait for the main HTML/CSS to load from the main page domain (a page in tumblr.com domain should wait for html/css files from *.tumblr.com, but not from *.doubleclick.com). 2. Other content load except HTML/CSS should be prioritized as follows, with placeholders shown until the load is complete - possibly adding one or more extra render passes, but increasing interactivity. So, basic priorities: 10 = Highest: HTML/CSS from main domain (sites.tumblr.com/some_site.html) 9: JS/XHR from main domain 8: HTML/CSS/JS from subdomains in the same domain (ads.tumblr.com/ad_serve.js) 7. <Reserved for future use> 6. IMG/media from main domain (sites.tubmlr.com/header.png) 5. IMG/media from subdomains in the same domain (ads.tubmlr.com/banner1.png) 4. <Optional*> HTML/CSS/JS (text) from CDNs 3. <Optional*> IMG/media from CDNs 2. HTML/CSS/JS from other domains (*.doubleclick.com/link_210986cv3.php?refer=2323424) 1=Lowest. IMG from other domains (*.doublclick.com/images/track_1x1.gif) *4 and 3 are optional and would need some kind of a whitelist of well-known CDN domains. This prioritization will reduce the latency between the page load start and a usable render, so even if some external-domain subresource is nonresponsive, interactivity will not suffer. Maybe the priorities should be moved to a user-controllable setting, where more fine-grained rules can be defined. Otherwise, maybe HTML standard can be extended to provide hints to the browser regarding the preferred subresource loading order, which should of course be user-overridable. Thank you for reading. This might be a big undertaking but the benefit for the user will be seen instantly. -- silvio _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
