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Bug 8949 - The exact behavior for links to external resources depends on the exact relationship, as defined for the relevant link type. Some of the attributes control whether or not the external resource is to be applied (as defined below). For external resources th
Summary: The exact behavior for links to external resources depends on the exact relat...
Status: VERIFIED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-02-11 06:54 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-09 14:33 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-02-11 06:54:56 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-link-element

Comment:
The exact behavior for links to external resources depends on the exact
relationship, as defined for the relevant link type. Some of the attributes
control whether or not the external resource is to be applied (as defined
below). For external resources that are represented in the DOM (for example,
style sheets), the DOM representation must be made available even if the
resource is not applied. To obtain the resource, the user agent must resolve
the URL given by the href attribute, relative to the element, and then fetch
the resulting absolute URL. User agents may opt to only try to obtain such
resources when they are needed, instead of pro-actively fetching all the
external resources that are not applied.

Posted from: 120.62.10.6
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-17 10:10:26 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: This appears to just be a quote from the spec. Did I miss something?