On 1/17/12 7:49 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Boris Zbarsky<bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:
Preventing _all_ loads for a document based on
some declarative thing near the start of the document, on the other hand,
should not be too bad.
A page-wide "disable optimizations" flag could easily be cargo-culted
into something harmful. Consider if the narrative becomes that setting
such a flag is good for mobile or something.
Who said anything about "disable optimizations"? I suggested a flag to
prevent all subresource loads, not just speculative preloads. Basically
a "treat this as a data document" flag.
If that plus a beforeprocess event addresses the
majority of the web-facing use cases, we should consider adding that.
So what are the Web-facing use cases? As in: What are people trying to
accomplish with client-side transformations?
Well, what mobify is apparently trying to accomplish is take an existing
(not-mobile-optimized, or in other words typically
ad-and-float-and-table-laden) page and modify it to look reasonable on a
small screen. That includes not loading some of the stylesheets and
various changes to the DOM, as far as I can tell.
-Boris
