On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Why not just have the UA run in a high quality mode the first time it is<br>
painted on, but if the script tries to paint again within a certain amount<br>
of time, switch to high speed?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>This makes sense.<br><br>However, there is still a potential use case for speed vs quality hints: when the author wants to treat some content on the page as visually more important than other content. For example, you might have a gallery page with a bunch of unimportant bling around the actual image/canvas you care about.<br>
</div></div><br>I'm unsure whether that's realistic enough to justify supporting hints.<br><br clear="all">Rob<br>-- <br>"He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah 53:5-6]