- From: Brendan Eich <brendan@secure.meer.net>
- Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:10:29 -0700
- To: chaals@yandex-team.ru
- CC: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Robert Hanson <hansonr@stolaf.edu>, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
chaals@yandex-team.ru wrote: >> Sorry. As with showModalDialog() we would really like to make this >> > feature disappear. I realize this makes some forms of code generation >> > harder, but hopefully you can find a way around that in time. > > Perhaps we should set some sense of expectation about*when* it won't work. Different parts of the Web move on different timelines. Right. Also (I am a WHATWG cofounder) it is overreach to promise obsolescence on any timeline on the Web. Robert should not worry about real browser implementors breaking content by removing sync XHR -- to do so would be to lose market share. In this light, WHATWG should avoid making indefinite-timescale, over-ambitious assertions. The W3C was rightly faulted when we founded the WHATWG for doing so. /be
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