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I'm confused, isn't it an open standard? http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/links.html#link-type-prefetch http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master
by cmelbye 12y ago
I'm confused, isn't it an open standard? http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/links.html#link-type-prefetch http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/links.html#link...
Perhaps their implementation differs, but they even showed the JS they're using to perform the prefetch in the post. It doesn't seem like they're trying to hide anything.
- throwaway4719 12y agoThey kept the fact that they were going to deploy this on the search service that has a monopoly on search in EU secret until it was launched in Chrome. Before this, this link prefetching has seen very little use in the wild.
- LukeB_UK 12y agoThey don't have to tell anyone what they're doing. As cmelbye stated, it's an open standard. Other browsers can implement it if they wish.