Intent to Extend Experiment: Prerendering cross-origin iframes

[Chromestatus]

Contact emails

yoi...@chromium.org

Explainer

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

Specification

https://wicg.github.io/nav-speculation/prerendering.html

Summary

Prerenders cross-origin iframes with an opt-in response header. Browsers will now prerender all cross-origin frames if the top-level frame's HTTP response includes the Supports-Loading-Mode: prerender-cross-origin-frames.

Blink component

Blink

Web Feature ID

Missing feature

TAG review

https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/1207

TAG review status

Not applicable

Origin Trial Name

Prerendering cross-origin iframes

Goals for experimentation

Gather feedback from web authors who already are interested in this feature.

Chromium Trial Name

Prerender2CrossOriginIframes

Origin Trial documentation link

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

WebFeature UseCounter name

kPrerender2CrossOriginIframes

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

The entire speculative loading feature is a progressive enhancement, so in general risks are low in this area.

Gecko: No signal (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1376)

WebKit: No signal (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/636)

Web developers: Positive Our partners show interests in having this feature.

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

No information provided

Reason this experiment is being extended

Partner requires additional implementation and assessment about the nested frames case.

Ongoing technical constraints

No information provided

Debuggability

The cross-origin iframe prerendering should be debuggable as well as top frame's one: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/application/debugging-speculation-rules#prerender

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?

No

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

Yes

Flag name on about://flags

"prerender2-cross-origin-iframes" from M148

Finch feature name

Prerender2CrossOriginIframes

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/440387014

Estimated milestones

Origin trial desktop first	147
Origin trial desktop last	152
Origin trial extension 1 end milestone	158

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5112398709129216?gate=5151856880910336

Links to previous Intent discussions

Intent to Prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/68b670ba.050a0220.270bc4.0593.GAE%40google.com
Intent to Experiment: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAAEV3p%3DzhNhfOpe8x%3DRKgxYFS9GCq_q-c8knZYRBRuijQ27o8w%40mail.gmail.com

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