- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:52:44 +0200
- To: Robert Hanson <hansonr@stolaf.edu>
- Cc: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Robert Hanson <hansonr@stolaf.edu> wrote: > I respectively request that the wording of the warning on the pages > https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/raw-file/default/xhr-1/Overview.html > and > http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/ > > be changed from > > Warning: Developers must not pass false for the async argument when the > JavaScript global environment is a document environment as it has > detrimental effects to the end user's experience. User agents are strongly > encouraged to warn about such usage in developer tools and may experiment > with throwing a "InvalidAccessError" exception when it occurs so the feature > can eventually be removed from the platform. > > to > > Note: Developers should not pass false for the async argument when the > JavaScript global environment is a document environment as it has > detrimental effects to the end user's experience. Developers are advised > that passing false for the async argument may eventually be removed from the > platform. Sorry. As with showModalDialog() we would really like to make this feature disappear. I realize this makes some forms of code generation harder, but hopefully you can find a way around that in time. Synchronous networking on the UI thread is a no-go. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
Received on Tuesday, 2 September 2014 08:53:11 UTC