[whatwg] Simplified <picture> element draft

Yoav Weiss yoav at yoav.ws
Tue Jan 7 09:01:57 PST 2014


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:

> On 1/6/14 12:42 PM, Yoav Weiss wrote:
>
>> I don't know much about Gecko's implementation of the preloader, so I
>> could be wrong, but from looking at nsHtml5TreeOpExecutor, it seems like
>> in Gecko (similarly to current Blink) the preloader's products are sent
>> to the main thread before the actual resource loading takes place.
>>
>
> That's correct.
>
> But the main thread may _also_ not be in a position to evaluate, or even
> parse, a media query that early in the load process in Gecko....
>
>
Hmm. I'd love to get some more details regarding that. I'll start a
mozilla.dev.platform thread on the subject, since it's Gecko specific.



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