Re: crypto-ISSUE-24: Defining a Synchronous API [Web Cryptography API]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote:
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> So how are applications supposed to do 'clean-up' operations that may require server communication, for example ?
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> There seems to be an assumption that the negative user experience when it takes a window a short time to close is worse than the negative user experience that might result from applications not being able to perform a clean close operation. Not sure how you could conclude that without knowledge of the applications….
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> …Mark
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To loop in other participants on the discussion - Mark has raised this
discussion point on the WHATWG mailing list.

Relevant archive links for those not subscribed:
- http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-August/036964.html
- http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-August/036969.html

Outside of the use case Mark described, I think running synchronous
operations on the main thread is going to be problematic.

Received on Monday, 27 August 2012 23:14:23 UTC