[whatwg] <a onlyreplace>

Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 08:14:45 PDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Markus Ernst <derernst at gmx.ch> wrote:
> - If none of the indicated IDs are found, *replace the whole page*. This
> makes it possible to prevent e.g. a wiki or forum from being @onlyreplaced
> by just using different IDs.

But it breaks progressive rendering, which could be extremely
annoying.  The user might give up after a second or two of no
response, as the (possibly quite long) page is fetched and parsed.



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