"Officially" deprecating main-thread synchronous XHR?

• From: Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>
• Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 18:48:44 +0200
• To: "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <52F50E6C.3060605@helsinki.fi>

Hi all,


I wonder what people think of if we started to rather aggressively deprecate the horrible API
main-thread sync XHR?
Currently its usage is still way too high (up to 2% based on telemetry data), but
if all the browsers warned about use of deprecated feature, we might be able to get its usage down.
And at least we'd improve responsiveness of those websites which stop using sync XHR because of the warning.




-Olli

Received on Friday, 7 February 2014 16:49:16 UTC