Explainer

https://github.com/WICG/nav-speculation/blob/main/prerendering-cross-origin-iframes.md

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Where and by whom is the work is being done?

• GitHub repo: https://wicg.github.io/nav-speculation/prerendering.html
• Primary contacts:
  • Yoichi Osato (@yoichio), Google
  • Hiroki Nakagawa (@nhiroki), Google
• Organization/project driving the design: Google
• This work is being funded by: Google
• Incubation and standards groups that have discussed the design:
• Standards group(s) that you expect to discuss and/or adopt this work when it's ready: <unknown

Feedback so far

• Multi-stakeholder feedback:
  • Chromium comments:
  • Mozilla comments: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1376
  • WebKit comments: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/636
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• Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this design:

You should also know that...

In short,
We propose adding an opt-in for such pages, via a HTTP header

Supports-Loading-Mode: prerender-cross-origin-frames

which requests that the browser prerender cross-origin frames on pages containing the header. (The browser remains free to ignore this request, or to ignore the overall request to prerender, if it believes that would be better for user experience.)

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