Progress events being cancelable?

• From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
• Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:33:57 +0200
• To: "Web API public" <public-webapi@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <op.trfoqvclwxe0ny@pc052.coreteam.oslo.opera.com>

Hi,

I propose to change the progress events to make them not cancelable. It has been pointed out that, for example, 'load' in DOM 3 is not cancelable, that the earlier SVG spec didn't have them cancelable, that there is no default action anyway, but if there is, such as informing the user that a transaction is in progress there are lots of drawbacks to canceling that and no clear benefit to justify keeping it cancelable.

cheers

Chaals

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