Rephrased from https://github.com/WICG/interventions/issues/10:
Deferring the load of out-of-view iframes might improve the loading experience, granting more bandwidth and cpu to things on the screen already.
Drive-by: I wonder how much win we will get if we just issue iframe loads (and loads from iframes) with IDLE priority? They will always be bumped to the bottom of the network queue, and we might avoid cases where deferring the load forever will break the web.
Obviously it won't give us all the benefits (blocking the load forever means it will never run JS, for instance). Still, it might be interesting to try as an experiment group? Does anyone know if we've tried this already?
csharrison -- I don't think anyone has tried that idea. I recorded it in a Deferred Frame Loading doc that I'm going to pass around once we have more data.
Comment 1 by dgro...@chromium.org
, Aug 8 2016