[Bug 16790] The term microtask should be defined

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16790

--- Comment #10 from Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> 2012-04-18 22:19:44 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> Past discussion on the matter of oneTimeOnly or autoRevoke may have used
> "microtask" and "stable state" interchangeably (vis
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JanMar/1306.html). 
> "Microtask" as an isolated concept doesn't exist; it is merely a magic word for
> algorithm invocation.

It refers to "perform a microtask checkpoint":
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#perform-a-microtask-checkpoint

The idea was to perform the revoke at the next microtask checkpoint (but wasn't
in those terms since I hadn't seen that definition yet back then).

> Unless anyone disagrees with Comment 4 or finds reason why this bug is still
> useful, I'm happy to move on.

(It does need review by somebody more familiar with the bigger picture, but we
can always come back to this if it turns out that microtasks really are what it
needs.)

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Received on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 22:19:52 UTC