Re: [FileAPI] FileReader.abort() and File[Saver|Writer].abort have different behaviors

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Eric U <ericu@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a read running, and at some point I abort it--it could be in
>> onprogress or elsewhere.  In onabort I start another read.  In
>> onloadstart I abort again.  Repeat as many times as you like, then let
>> a read complete.  I believe we've specced that the event sequence
>> should look like this:
>>
>> loadstart
>> [progress]*
>> ------[events from here to XXX happen synchronously, with no queueing]
>> abort
>> loadstart
>>
>> abort
>> loadstart
>
> XHR handles this by not allowing a new request to be opened until the
> abort() method terminates.  Could that be done here?  It seems like an
> important thing to be consistent about.
>
> http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/#the-abort-method

Ooh, that's a good idea.

/ Jonas

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