Re: [xhr] Abandon hope of removing sync XHR from the web platform? (#20)

If sync XHR is taken away, what alternative mechanism are you proposing to achieve same effect. We have a javascript-streaming optimization which breaks the js into smaller pieces and loads the missing ones on demand. It has been very effective in reducing the size of js and removing unused parts (http://www.instartlogic.com/products/performance/streaming/javascript-streaming). This optimizations needs to pause the js execution until network response is received and as of now, only sync XHR can achieve this.

Browser is constantly touted as a platform that can replace even OS. In a platform scenario, there will all kinds of people offering different tools / value. 
Removal of sync XHR because it slows the page, assumes that the web community only consists of browser gurus and naive web developers who can shoot themselves in the foot!!

If the page is slow, google search ranking will anyways punish the page, why do you want to dumb down the browser for the rest of us?! How does this helps browser to become a true platform, and not a nanny framework for less capable programmers?!


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