[whatwg] defer on style, depends
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Sun Feb 8 21:20:17 PST 2009
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Garrett Smith wrote:
>
> Sometimes a document's resources are not needed all at first. For
> example, a script that is not needed until after the document is parsed
> can be given the defer attribute (for browsers that support defer).
>
> External css can also be a blocking download. Scripts have defer
> attribute, but style and link do not.
>
> The proposal is to add to defer to style, and link.
>
> This will allow browsers to not block on those elements.
Browsers are already allowed to not block on those elements.
> It would be more complete to have a depends attribute on script and style.
>
> <script depends="a b c"></script>
>
> Where the depends is id-list [CS], space separated values of element IDs.
Why can't you just put the <script> element below the elements whose IDs
you would have listed?
> It would also be useful to have a way to dynamically load scripts, other
> than createElement("script").
This seems like a request for the ECMAScript group.
Cheers,
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