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Bug 18272 - more explanation needed for setting the cache mode setting. What exactly does prefer-online and fast cache modes do?
Summary: more explanation needed for setting the cache mode setting. What exactly does...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML.next
Classification: Unclassified
Component: default (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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: 18273 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2012-07-18 17:54 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-21 22:35 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 17:54:55 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 17651 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-06-29 14:55:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-06-29 14:55:38 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/offline.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#writing-cache-manifests
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#writing-cache-manifests

Comment:
more explanation needed for setting the cache mode setting. What exactly does
prefer-online and fast cache modes do?

Posted from: 38.99.230.154 by ryan.walters@ascp.org
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
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Comment 1 Robin Berjon 2012-09-13 15:08:56 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are
satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If
you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please
reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML
Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest
title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue
yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:

   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Rationale: AppCache is in the process of being extensively fixed so that
there's no telling whether this problem would even survive the changes. It can
therefore be looked at later.
Comment 2 Robin Berjon 2012-09-13 15:12:53 UTC 
*** Bug 18273 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-10-15 06:12:33 UTC 
WHATWG bug 17651 was resolved with the following patch:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/f0f75059f0114710922357842bd84f6f4ed44c05

Would you like this applied to HTML5 or kept in a branch for HTML.next ?
Comment 4 Robin Berjon 2012-10-15 08:40:11 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> WHATWG bug 17651 was resolved with the following patch:
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/f0f75059f0114710922357842bd84f6f4ed44c05
> 
> Would you like this applied to HTML5 or kept in a branch for HTML.next ?

No, while the whole feature's rework is .next, any fix that can make it less broken is good to take now!
Comment 5 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-10-21 22:35:46 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If
you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of
this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would
like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would
like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please
add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and
text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue
yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this
document:   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy-v2.html

Status: Accepted

Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/f0f75059f0114710922357842bd84f6f4ed44c0
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/e6c75884ae551647312cc37666419a5dbfa990e5

Rationale: Adopted WHATWG patches