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

With enough time and effort, yeah, I can program around this, but I have many customers with many different systems.  If one day they all upgrade their browsers, and sync XHR stops working, that's not a good day!  Lots of billable hours?  Yes.  Billable hours that I want?  No.

I'm having a hard time understanding the value-system that gives priority to a cosmetic concern (which can be self-remedied) over not-breaking existing code.  

Look at how many terminal-based applications that we use as developers.  As a platform, the terminal lacks a great many things, yet it is _stable_, which lets the developer focus on the problem instead of the platform.  When you have a platform that makes changes lightly (windows, gnome, android, iOS, etc.), instead of being able to double-down on the quality and functionality of your program, you end up in a perpetual struggle to keep your app functioning correctly across all of the different versions of the platform.  It's stagnation.  It's IE all over again.

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