Re: Will DOMRequest be unified in future? DOMRequest vs ContactsRequest

You are welcome to file bugs for this so that the editors can fix it
when they are updating the specs

Kenneth

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:23 AM, David Bruant <bruant.d@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/7/23 Min, Hongbo <hongbo.min@intel.com>
>>
>> My concern is, would we unify the DOMRequest definitions and requires that
>> all ongoing operation returns a DOMRequest object? In that case, it would
>> make Web developer more happier since they have a consistent returning
>> object for ongoing operation.
>
> If a unification was to happen, I hope it will be for everthing to return a
> Promise http://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#promises
> Worst case (need of FirefoxOS backward compat?), DOMRequest could be
> reworked to inherit from Promise. But the way forward is to never use
> DOMRequest ever again in a spec and use promises instead.
>
> Everything returning a Promise would make webdevs much happier than
> everything returning DOMRequest I imagine :-)
>
> David



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