Re: =[xhr]

> Yes, sure, a lot of it can be done asynchronously. And I do
> that as much as possible. But I suggest there are times
> where synchronous transfer is both appropriate and
> necessary. The case in point is 50 levels deep in the stack
> of function calls when a new "Java" class is needed.

This statement is inacurate; if you conceptualize your Java-to-JavaScript 
conversion to use Async calls where normal calls are done in Java, you 
should not suffer from any issue. As C# did show, every single piece of 
high-level code can be transformed in an asynchronous one by the mean of a 
state machine, which can be auto-generated from the initial code without any 
major syntax change. Sure, this will require a large rewrite of the conveter 
you are currently using, and this is a non-trivial work not a lot of people 
can achieve today, but I think everyone here understands that. We don't 
expect you to make the switch overnight, nor in the coming months.

The reason we don't expect this is that neither the browser implementation 
of the concepts nor the developer tools and experience with the technology 
required for this rewrite are tailored for a broad usage at this time. I 
think everyone also understands the old code relying on sync xhr will take a 
lot of time to go away. But, eventually, browsers will have to break sites. 
The hope is to reduce the amount of sites over time, by the use of scary 
warnings like this.

What you need to understand is that this feature will eventually be removed 
from the web platform, and therefore spec writers already warn now of what 
shall be done in the future, so that the phasing out will work the same way 
accross all browsers. This doesn’t mean this phasing out is planned anytime 
soon, but at least people will have received a fair warning for a long time 
when such phasing out will happen.

If you rely on synchronous xhr calls for your Java-to-Javascript converter, 
you would better schedule in the coming years a rewrite that makes use of 
async/await calls.

Received on Wednesday, 3 September 2014 12:06:00 UTC