Re: Synchronous XMLHttpRequest and events

On 05/13/2011 11:39 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Boris Zbarsky<bzbarsky@mit.edu>  wrote:
>> On 5/13/11 4:07 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
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>>> It *does* however call for a readystatechange event to be fired in
>>> response to the call to .open. Even if the request being started is a
>>> synchronous one.
>>>
>>> What is the use case for this event? It seems pretty useless and
>>> inconsistent to me.
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>> I believe web pages depend on this to some extent; the fact that Gecko used
>> to not fire it caused all sorts of compat issues.  See
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313646
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> Ugh, yeah, in testing my patch I came across the same bug.
>
> So it appears the spec needs to be adjusted the other direction then.
> It needs to define that readystatechange needs to fire in all cases
> independent of the value of the asynchronous flag?

No. We don't want to fire any events *during* sync XHR processing.


-Olli


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Received on Friday, 13 May 2011 20:55:08 UTC