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@@ -25440,9 +25440,7 @@ document.body.appendChild(wbr);</code></pre>
    <dfn data-x="preloaded-resource-response">response</dfn>.</p></li>
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-  <p>A <code>Document</code> has a <dfn>list of preloaded resources</dfn> (a list of
+  <p>A <code>Document</code> has a <dfn>list of preloaded resources</dfn> (a <span>list</span> of
   <span>preloaded resource</span>), which is initially empty.</p>
 
   <p>To <dfn export>consume a preloaded resource</dfn> given
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       <p>then <span data-x="list remove">remove</span> <var>resource</var> from <var>doc</var>'s
       <span>list of preloaded resources</span> and return <var>resource</var>'s
       <span data-x="preloaded-resource-response">response</span>.</p>
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+      <p class="note">Removing the resource from the <span>list of preloaded resources</span> does
+      not necessarily mean that user-agents have to remove it from their implementaion-specific
+      caches, but rather that the observable behavior specific to preloads no longer applies. For
+      example, user agents can add a preloaded image to the <span>list of available images</span>
+      and take care of the different cache headers at a different layer.</p>
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