[whatwg] Thread to run Web Socket feedback from the protocol ? from Alexey Proskuryakov on 2009-12-04 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from December 2009)

From: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap@webkit.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:52:08 -0800
Message-ID: <640BBD67-35D5-4648-98F7-B512F3D5BCF3@webkit.org>

On 04.12.2009, at 4:12, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

>> On the other hand, it can't possibly work like XMLHttpRequest - for  
>> whatever reason, the Web Sockets spec says that events are posted  
>> asynchronously. Maybe I'm not the last an only one to get confused  
>> by this difference from XMLHttpRequest events.
>
> XMLHttpRequest network events are "asynchronous" too.

Looks like the spec says so now. Does any browser post XMLHttpRequest  
events asynchronously? This change in the spec is not harmless, as it  
seems to make readystatechange event pretty much useless.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov

Received on Friday, 4 December 2009 09:52:08 UTC