[whatwg] Prerendering and APIs

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Nov 28 16:50:20 PST 2012


On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 4/9/12 2:16 PM, Gavin Peters (蓋文彼德斯) wrote:
> > However, this is strikingly similar to two other cases: when a<link
> > rel=stylesheet ...>  element is removed from the document, in WebKit, we
> > remove the stylesheet from the document, although this isn't explicitly
> > specified in 4.12.5.11,
> > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html#link-type-stylesheet.
> 
> In this situation, Gecko removes the stylesheet from the document, but 
> does not stop its load and keeps it in the per-document object cache. 
> Fwiw.

Spec somewhat updated (.sheet now changes to null if you take the <link> 
or <style> out of the document), though I'll revisit this as part of:

   https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14703

...to make it more precise.

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