Add support for rel=stylesheet in Link headers

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
html
Domain
web-dev

Research direction

Start with the HTML Standard's “process a link header” section and the linked discussion in whatwg/html#4224, then review the Chromium issue noted in the body. This is a tracking issue rather than an implementation task: the complications and a concrete completion criterion are not yet defined.

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Description

addition/proposal needs implementer interest topic: link topic: style

Firefox supports this, no other browser does. Chromium is currently not interested. This is largely a tracking issue to see if any second-implementer interest materializes.

The spec currently does not: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#link-type-stylesheet says

The process a link header steps for this type of linked resource are to do nothing.

If we were to work on this we'd need to figure out the various complications mentioned in https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4224#issuecomment-643089693.

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