- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:42:35 -0700
- To: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
- Cc: whatwg Group <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I heard that there was some discussion of banning the use of synchronous operations within document onclose handlers. > > Whilst it is obviously bad to hold up the closing of a document - especially indefinitely - I wondered what the solution was for applications that need to perform some final communication with an application server - say using XHR - when the document is closed ? Is it possible that events could continue to be handled for some short time after the onclose completes ? Something else ? > > I understand that there are cases where this is not possible - such as sudden loss of power - but that does't mean it isn't useful to be able to perform such operations in the normal, common, case. I worked through a proposal for this exact problem a few months ago: <http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-May/035686.html> Hixie hasn't burned through enough of his backlog to work on it yet, but if you have further comments, perhaps you could add them to that thread. ~TJ
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