HTML-only conditional lazy loading (via preload and media)

Post by alwillis » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC

eyelidlessness wrote: post #16

netol wrote: post #6

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I could not find this hack documented or discussed anywhere, that's what I meant.

It’s not a hack, but you may find more documentation for the equivalent preload values expressed as a tag. There is (near) parity between that and the HTTP Link header. The values used in the article should work in HTML as well.

    body {
      behavior: url("csshover3.htc");
    }

Post by netol » Mon, Jan 12, 2026, 6:39 AM UTC

alwillis wrote: post #21

eyelidlessness wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not a hack, but you may find more documentation for the equivalent preload values expressed as a tag. There is (near) parity between that and the HTTP Link header. The values used in the article should work in HTML as well.

> It’s not a hack Yeah, this isn't a hack; this is what media queries were made for. Now, this is a hack! You had to do this to make :hover work correctly for IE6—IE8 [1]: body { behavior: url("csshover3.htc"); } [1]: https://pawelgrzybek.com/internet-explorer-just-hit-the-end-...