[webkit-dev] HTML5 & Web Links (RFC 5988)

[Gavin Peters (蓋文彼德斯)]

Firefox supports it for rel=prefetch, and it was my thought to include that
support in my patch.  That use is worthwhile: it allows server specification
of prefetch resources, as opposed to author (as in HTML).l

- Gavin

On 9 November 2010 12:20, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Nov 9, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote:
>
> >
> > 09.11.2010, в 03:51, Alex Milowski написал(а):
> >
> >> Now that RFC 5988 is a proposed standard [1] and HTML5 references the
> >> "Link:" header [2]
> >
> >
> > Note the way in which HTML5 references it: "Some versions of HTTP defined
> a Link: header". That's about HTTP 1.0 only.
> >
> > Specifying stylesheets in HTTP headers seems like a most obvious
> misfeature to me, and other potential uses of the Link header field are so
> unimportant that RFC 5988 doesn't even bother to mention them in its
> introduction.
>
> It might be worth testing which other browsers support it. I know at least
> Firefox supports associating a stylesheet with Link. It does seem like a
> fairly ill-conceived feature, but not so much that it is worth being the
> sole holdout, if other browser engines all do it. And there are some
> plausible use cases - same document served with multiple stylesheets,
> without having to modify the document on the fly, just the headers.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
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