Re: [XHR] remove "user cancels request"

On Feb 24, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
>> Currently the XMLHttpRequest Standard special cases the condition
>> where the end user terminates the request. Given that there's less and
>> less likely to be UI for that kind of feature, does it still make
>> sense to expose this distinction from a network error in the API? I
>> think we should merge them.
>> 
>> http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
> 
> I didn't even know about that behavior.  I've always assumed that the only way onabort happens is as a result of my calling abort().  I don't think breaking that assumption would break my code, but it's a rare, untested code path.  I doubt other developers test it either.  I agree that users killing a network request should look like a network error, and in general the API should guarantee that onabort is only fired as a result of a call to abort().

+1

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> Glenn Maynard
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- Timmy