>> Thanks for the explanation. I took a black-box approach in testing - I >> don't pretend to know how Firefox works - and from that perspective, >> it looked like it was synchronous as the |sheet| was present and >> properly populated in JS. > > Try setting an interval to poll right before the <link> is parsed. That > will black-box show that it's not synchronous. ;)
I stand corrected. ;) >> It is. However the specification states that |disabled| would be >> ignored if there is no |sheet|. It looks like web-authors don't factor >> this into their code. > > Ah. Do they set disabled and expect it to take effect whenever the sheet > actually appears? Yes, we have seen some regressions because people were expecting exactly that. Thanks, Julien