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…ts on style sheets even though they don't have to. git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@6582 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
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@@ -15147,6 +15147,19 @@ <h4 id=styling><span class=secno>4.2.7 </span><dfn title="styling processing mod
   and the user agent hasn't given up on that particular style sheet
   yet. A user agent may give up on a style sheet at any time.</p>
 
+  <p class=note>Giving up on a style sheet before the style sheet
+  loads, if the style sheet eventually does still load, means that the
+  script might end up operating with incorrect information. For
+  example, if a style sheet sets the color of an element to green, but
+  a script that inspects the resulting style is executed before the
+  sheet is loaded, the script will find that the element is black (or
+  whatever the default color is), and might thus make poor choices
+  (e.g. deciding to use black as the color elsewhere on the page,
+  instead of green). Implementors have to balance the likelihood of a
+  script using incorrect information with the performance impact of
+  doing nothing while waiting for a slow network request to
+  finish.</p>
+
   <p>A <code><a href=#document>Document</a></code> <dfn id=has-a-style-sheet-that-is-blocking-scripts>has a style sheet that is blocking
   scripts</dfn> if there is either <a href=#a-style-sheet-that-is-blocking-scripts>a style sheet that is
   blocking scripts</a> in the context of that

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   and the user agent hasn't given up on that particular style sheet
   yet. A user agent may give up on a style sheet at any time.</p>
 
+  <p class=note>Giving up on a style sheet before the style sheet
+  loads, if the style sheet eventually does still load, means that the
+  script might end up operating with incorrect information. For
+  example, if a style sheet sets the color of an element to green, but
+  a script that inspects the resulting style is executed before the
+  sheet is loaded, the script will find that the element is black (or
+  whatever the default color is), and might thus make poor choices
+  (e.g. deciding to use black as the color elsewhere on the page,
+  instead of green). Implementors have to balance the likelihood of a
+  script using incorrect information with the performance impact of
+  doing nothing while waiting for a slow network request to
+  finish.</p>
+
   <p>A <code><a href=#document>Document</a></code> <dfn id=has-a-style-sheet-that-is-blocking-scripts>has a style sheet that is blocking
   scripts</dfn> if there is either <a href=#a-style-sheet-that-is-blocking-scripts>a style sheet that is
   blocking scripts</a> in the context of that

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@@ -16043,6 +16043,19 @@ c-end         = "-->"</pre>
   and the user agent hasn't given up on that particular style sheet
   yet. A user agent may give up on a style sheet at any time.</p>
 
+  <p class="note">Giving up on a style sheet before the style sheet
+  loads, if the style sheet eventually does still load, means that the
+  script might end up operating with incorrect information. For
+  example, if a style sheet sets the color of an element to green, but
+  a script that inspects the resulting style is executed before the
+  sheet is loaded, the script will find that the element is black (or
+  whatever the default color is), and might thus make poor choices
+  (e.g. deciding to use black as the color elsewhere on the page,
+  instead of green). Implementors have to balance the likelihood of a
+  script using incorrect information with the performance impact of
+  doing nothing while waiting for a slow network request to
+  finish.</p>
+
   <p>A <code>Document</code> <dfn>has a style sheet that is blocking
   scripts</dfn> if there is either <span>a style sheet that is
   blocking scripts</span> in the context of that