Re: [HTML Imports]: Sync, async, -ish? from Jonas Sicking on 2013-11-22 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2013)

From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:05:09 -0800
To: Daniel Buchner <daniel@mozilla.com>
Cc: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>, John J Barton <johnjbarton@johnjbarton.com>, Steve Souders <souders@google.com>, Erik Arvidsson <arv@chromium.org>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com>, Scott Miles <sjmiles@google.com>
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On Nov 22, 2013 8:24 AM, "Daniel Buchner" <daniel@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> Personally I don't have any issues with this solution, it provides for
the use-cases we face. Also, it isn't without precedent - you can opt for a
sync XMLHttpRequest (not much different).

Except that sync XHR is considered one of the great miss designs of the web
and is causing huge UI issues for users and great pain for developers. If
we had the opportunity we would remove it in a heartbeat.

/ Jonas

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