[whatwg] style sheet blocking scripts
Boris Zbarsky
bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Wed Dec 9 16:02:57 PST 2009
On 12/9/09 3:53 PM, James Robinson wrote:
> 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.
Sure. The Gecko behavior is to not run the inline script until the
stylesheets have loaded, just like webkit (and Gecko) does for
non-inline scripts.
Any inline script that asks for layout information is affected, right?
Good question on how much this is a problem in practice. I don't have
data on that....
-Boris
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