[webkit-dev] beforeload & link (esp rel prefetch)

[Adam Barth]

2011/2/23 Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>:
> I think that adding beforeload to META-based prefetch and icon types makes a lot of sense. For subresource rel type, we may want to register it first, as mentioned by Julian.

Looks like Gavin already registered it on 5 November 2010, so we're
all set in that regard.

Adam


> Steps 3-5 obviously depend on whether we want to proceed with adding support for the Link header field, which I'm not sure if it's got much support on webkit-dev.
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> - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
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> 22.02.2011, §Ó 15:11, Gavin Peters (ÉwÎı˵Â˹) §ß§Ñ§á§Ú§ã§Ñ§Ý(§Ñ):
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>> Hi!
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>> I'm returning to this work now, and I see that folks have been quiet about this since I posted my plan.  Here's how I'm going to proceed:
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>> Step 1: I will add beforeload to prefetch & icon rel types.  Expect a CL for this soon.
>> Step 2: I will add a new subresource rel type, which will have higher priority than prefetch, otherwise be the same.
>> Step 3: We land bug 51941, which factors out the cache/LinkLoader.cpp from html/HTMLLinkElement.cpp
>> Step 4: We land the Link header parser directly (bug 51940)
>> Step 5: Add beforeload events to the Link header?
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>> Comments?
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