[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 20018] Linking to style sheets with HTTP headers is not implemented in WebKit

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20018





--- Comment #11 from Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>  2010-12-14 13:57:58 PST ---
Both server operators and people looking at Web content from client side will have more special cases to check, maintain and worry about. Intermediate software like proxies will have more opportunities to handle the content wrong. The end result will be an even less reliable Web.

Having multiple ways to do the same thing has a considerable cost, and isn't always better than having one way.

Most importantly, the experience with other document specific information being passed in HTTP headers (like charset or Vary) has been so miserable that adding more out of band information gets extremely unwelcome.

Note that this doesn't fully apply to feed-autodiscovery or prefetch, and those shouldn't be discussed here. This bug is very specifically about rel=stylesheet.

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