[whatwg] <banner> as a dedicated tag

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know that iframes don't stop the rest of the page from rendering
>> while they load.  I can't recall off the top of my head whether they
>> delay the load event or not.
>
> It seems yes:
>
> "When there is an active parser in the iframe, and when anything in
> the iframe is delaying the load event of the iframe's browsing
> context's active document, the iframe must delay the load event of its
> document."
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-iframe-element.html#the-iframe-element
>
> I don't think this is a huge problem, though.

Well, it is /a/ problem at any rate.

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/06/03/using-iframes-sparingly/

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis