Re: [whatwg/dom] `AbortSignal.timeout()` may not abort past the timeout while performing synchronous work (Issue #1461) from Anne van Kesteren on 2026-03-23 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from March 2026)

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annevk left a comment (whatwg/dom#1461)

You should probably queue tasks to perform your work as to not block the event loop. I could maybe see wanting to support this kind of flow in dedicated workers, but we'd probably want a dedicated API for that.

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