[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 43400] Add priority attribute to XMLHttpRequest

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43400





--- Comment #21 from Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org>  2010-08-06 14:31:59 PST ---
My r- is more about my preference for implementation using a for instead of an if cascade.  A "nit" for sure, but I think it might make the code slightly less error-prone.

I'm ambivalent about this.  I feel very uninformed.  Mike Belshe attempted to inform me some this afternoon.

I don't wish to stand in the way of progress.

Mike explained that this is designed to be an experiment to see if better performance can be delivered to complex applications like Google Maps.  The "priority" level is intended as a hint to the browser, not as a service guarantee.

I wonder if the scheduling could/should be implemented at the WebCore level instead of in the network stack.  Maybe it has to be implemented in the network stack.

How does the "priority" of XHR requests relate to the priority of requests generated from the browser?

Mike mentions that the desire here is to have an experiment which can be run for a few (3-4) months.

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