Let that really sink in: the browser-side idea of priority is a decision made with incomplete information, under the gun, and once the request is sent, it's pretty much over-and-done with.
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We'll always need to intervene as the user's agent, but so long as JS is part of the platform, developers could *already* do whatevs; it might just have been the long way 'round.
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So it's worth flagging this effect, worth being upset, and perhaps even worth calling out all the folks who work on Chrome that haven't fixed it. But the problem isn't the implementation. It's harder and worse than that. It's a fundamental lack of respect for web developers.
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Taking control of the network shouldn't mean always getting down-ranked in priority. This sort of magic needs to be in developer hands: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/blink/renderer/platform/loader/fetch/resource_fetcher.cc?l=124 …
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