Manually specifying different HTTP ranges of the same resource is more verbose, more error-prone and more confusing than just specifying different resources. Other than that, I guess it would work.
That's not so great for high-latency networks (like most cellular networks). If you use range requests, you add round trips. If you cancel the load partway, you're too late because your pipe is already filled with bits you don't need.
SVG is fine for assets that can easily be described in vector form, but it's not the best choice for all image types. For example, photographs (where you might have an ultra high resolution original that you're scaling down) are not easily representable in SVG other than to embed the bitmap.
In the case of Web standards in particular, you can usually see the checkins in our public source tree well before we ship it. But per policy we will rarely publicly commit to shipping something or not ahead of time.
In WebKit, we have macros to always inline or never inline for our target compilers, so we can force the issue if the compiler won't take the hint in a place that matters.
I expect other browsers could greatly improve JSBench performance if they focused on it. But I would be quite surprised if they matched Safari's current results in a month. It took a lot more than a month and significant architectural work to get those results in the first place.
As far as I can tell, it doesn't say what you claim it does. There is no mention of burden of proof or prima facile case at all. It merely states that truth is an absolute defense, but that is only the case because it precludes the plaintiff meeting their burden of proof to show falsity.
Since you mention a distinction between private and public indviduals, I suspect you are confusing the issue of burden of proof with the "actual malice" standard, which must be met to establish defamation of a public figure but not a private figure. This is established by Supreme Court precedents Arthur v Sullivan and Getz v Robert Welch Inc, both of which are cited in the law review article I mentioned and both of which maintain falsity as a required element of the offense. (In case you were wondering, Supreme Court precedent trumps Circuit Court precedent in the US, so even if the case said what you claimed it would not be informative about the state of the law of defamation.)
Correct that truth is a defense. But, as I understand it, the defendant does not at any point have a burden of proof in a civil case, even if the plaintiff has made a prima facie case. That's just not how burden of proof works for any tort under US law. The burden is essentially always the plaintiff's by a preponderance of the evidence. Many defendants try to prove truth of their claims so that the plaintiff cannot meet their burden of proof to show falsity. But that doesn't mean they have the burden of proof, in the sense in which it's typically used.
> As in all defamation cases, it is Ms. Allen's job to prove that the allegedly defamatory statements (the accusation of rape) were true and the photo is a significant obstacle for her to overcome.
That's not the case under US libel and defamation law. As with any other tort, the plaintiff has the burden of proof (and thus must prove, among other elements of the tort, that the statement was false). The UK and some other jurisdictions have a reversed burden of proof for defamation or libel, but not the US.
1) The answer wasn't "we'd like to do this but we're super busy right now, how about later" or "that's super complicated, will you guys put in a lot of the effort". It was a pretty direct no. We would have been willing to do much of the work.
2) My recollection is that we talked about it around a year after Chrome was released.
Chrome Beta release date: September 2, 2008
Date of WebKit2 announcement: Thu Apr 8, 2010 (after <1 year of development)
I don't have records of the meetings where we walked though.
3) Does the reason for saying no affect whether our choice to make our own thing was reasonable?
My interest in this thread was only to report on some history that I knew about personally, to correct what I thought was an incomplete version of events. I think a bunch of people found that information useful and interesting.
I regret that this thread has turned into such a back-and-forth. It's not my goal to detract from the Blink announcement. I feel like it would be rude to leave you hanging on mid-thread. However, I feel like:
(a) You are trying to argue with my version of specific events where I was present in person and you (as far as I recall) were not.
(b) You are trying to argue with my stated motivations for decisions that I was part of and you were not.
(c) You seem to want to assign blame.
Maybe my impressions are wrong. But given this, I find it hard to reply in a way that would be constructive and would not further escalate. I hope you will forgive me for not debating about it further.
Thanks, Mike. And sorry also if my reply was too lengthy or pedantic or otherwise out of place. I feel bad for getting into a back-and-forth about this.