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Support as=fetch in navigation early hints preload

Category

Network / Connectivity

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

In development (Chrome In development)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Support <link rel=preload as=fetch> in navigation early hints. This allows web developers to preload resources that are fetched by the fetch() API.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#attr-link-as
• Firefox: In development
• Safari: No signal — Previously asked in https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2021-May/031861.html
• Web developers: No signals — We got this feature request from one of our partners.
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1408649

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