Re: InedxedDB events : misconception?

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Alec Flett <alecflett@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Michaël Rouges <michael.rouges@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hum ... thank you for this answer, but ...
>>
>> Are you sure there is no possibility that the application is completed
>> before adding events?
>>
>> I find it hard to perceive how it couldn't happen.
>>
>
> Just to close the loop on this concern: the reason there is no possibility
> is that this part of the IndexedDB specification - all browsers must
> guarantee this behavior to have a working IndexedDB - in fact the rest of
> IndexedDB itself would be unusable if this guarantee was not met.
>
> Stuff like this can feel a little awkward if you're using to dealing in a
> multi-threaded world, but this API is fairly normal for a web api, at least
> in this respect. In fact XHR is the outlier here in requiring a specific
> xhrrequest.send() call.
>
>
Yeah, there's a bunch of APIs like this; EventSource, Notification,
IndexDB's stuff, ...

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