On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Jan-Ivar Bruaroey <jib@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 4/27/15 11:14 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>
>> As I said, this seems like special casing. Given that the
>> promise-cancellation approach
>> is (a) more flexible (b) more general and (c) seems to be coming anyway,
>> what are
>> the merits of special-case code here?
>>
>
> If you mean the fetch() api then I agree that waiting a bit to see what
> they do is certainly a reasonable approach.
>
> But note that fetch() - by the thread you mention - isn't waiting for
> cancellable promises either it seems (because I think they know it's a bad
> idea).
That's not really how I read that thread, but perhaps Anne can summarize
their plans.
-Ekr
>
> .: Jan-Ivar :.
>
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