[whatwg] style sheet blocking scripts

[James Robinson]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:

> On 12/9/09 3:06 PM, James Robinson wrote:
>
>>    On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:10 PM, James Robinson <jamesr at google.com
>>    <mailto:jamesr at google.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> WebKit does not suspend script execution on requests for visual
>>> information if stylesheets have not loaded
>>>
>>
>  In theory, this is unobservable to the page unless it queries the loaded
>> stylesheets
>> directly or a property derived from layout both of which should suspend
>> script execution.
>>
>
> I'm having a hard time reconciling the above two claims.
>

Hence the "in theory".  If WebKit did suspend script execution on requests
for information that pending stylesheets might influence, then theory would
match practice.  It currently does not (which I believe is contrary to what
the spec says).  I'm curious if this actually negatively impacts anyone in
the wild, as suspending script execution in the middle of a block to wait
for a network load is generally not ideal.

- James


> -Boris
>
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