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

From: Daniel Buchner <daniel@mozilla.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:38:29 -0800
To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
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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Of course I realize this Jonas, but I assure you, if you burden the most
common use-cases with poor ergonomics, developers will find even more
ghastly ways to degrade perf. Can someone post an overview of the proposed
solutions, and how they apply to the use-cases stated a few posts back?

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:

> 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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