- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:10:15 +0100
- To: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
* Alex Russell wrote: >My *first* approach to this annoyance would be to start adding some async >primitives to the platform that don't suck so hard; e.g., Futures/Promises. >Saying that you should do something does not imply that doubling up on API >surface area for a corner-case is the right solution. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2008Jul/0009.html was my "first approach". Workers of course have it much easier, they just need a single waiting primitive to make an asynchronous API synchronous. I've http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/1016.html argued against duplicating APIs for workers as proposed here, but so far without much success, it would seem... -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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