Re: Synchronous XMLHttpRequest and events

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>wrote:

> On 05/13/2011 11:39 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Boris Zbarsky<bzbarsky@mit.edu>  wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>> 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?
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> No. We don't want to fire any events *during* sync XHR processing.
>

I would definitely prefer not to on philosophical grounds, but I think it's
required for compatibility and that trumps theoretical purity.  The spec
should document reality.

- James


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