Re: [whatwg/fetch] Deferred fetching (PR #1647)

@noamr commented on this pull request.



> +<dl>
+ <dt><dfn export for="deferred fetch record">request</dfn>
+ <dd>A <a for=/>request</a>.
+
+ <dt><dfn export for="deferred fetch record">inactivity delay</dfn> (default null)
+ <dd>Null or a <a>duration</a>.
+
+ <dt><dfn export for="deferred fetch record">invoke state</dfn> (default "<code>deferred</code>")
+ <dd>
+  <p>"<code>deferred</code>", "<code>scheduled</code>", "<code>terminated</code>",
+  "<code>aborted</code>", or "<code>activated</code>".
+
+  <p class=note>This value can be modified <a>in parallel</a>. There could be a race condition where
+  the <code>Document</code> object's <a for=/>event loop</a> might change it to
+  "<code>deferred</code>" at the same time that it is changed to "<code>activated</code>". UAs can
+  mitigate this race condition in an <a>implementation-defined</a> manner.

The spec can be changed to synchronize with the event loop that waits for the background timeout. But we can't do that when it's synchronous (without either running a task on an inactive document, or synchronous IPC).

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