> How do you know what user intent is? I can tell you what it's unlikely to be. It's unlikely to be to fire HTTP requests at the arbitrary keyboard repeat of t

> How do you know what user intent is? I can tell you what it's unlikely to be. It's unlikely to be to fire HTTP requests at the arbitrary keyboard repeat of their particular computer. It's unlikely to be to machine gun off HTTP requests so rapidly that no pages ever get rendered. Or perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps there's a reasonable user behavior I'm forgetting. Please, enlighten me. > If I'm holding the F5 key down, what do you think I want to happen? At a guess, it would be to refresh the page repeatedly. In which case the ideal browser behavior might be to refresh the page at the maximum possible speed that would still allow some kind of visual feedback. Perhaps it could repeat as soon as the previous requests hits first paint. That would make sense.