Re: {Spam?} Re: [xhr]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> > Hear hear. Indeed, a large part of moving to a "living standard" model is
> > all about maintaining the agility to respond to changes to avoid having to
> > make this very kind of assertion.
> 
> See 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2014JanMar/thread.html#msg232 
> for why we added a warning to the specification. It was thought that if 
> we made a collective effort we can steer people away from depending on 
> this.

The text of the warning seems fine to me. It doesn't make any assertions 
about the future as far as I can tell; it just discourages use of a 
feature and says that we hope to remove it. If we are ever to remove 
something as widely used as sync XHR, this kind of advocacy seems like a 
prerequisite.

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