Re: [xhr] responseType for sync requests in window context

2012-01-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
2012/1/26 Mark Callow callow_m...@hicorp.co.jp I do not think you should be in the business of brute-forcing authors into converting their applications to use async XHRs. As far as I understand it, it is the application's UI that may be unresponsive during a sync XHR. In that case it should

Re: [xhr] responseType for sync requests in window context

2012-01-28 Thread Darin Fisher
Please keep in mind that multiple web apps share the same main thread. While browser's can keep their own UI responsive in the face of synchronous XHRs, they cannot do the same for other web app, which may share their main thread with a web app that uses synchronous XHR. Unfortunately, the web

Re: [xhr] responseType for sync requests in window context

2012-01-27 Thread Mark Callow
I do not think you should be in the business of brute-forcing authors into converting their applications to use async XHRs. As far as I understand it, it is the application's UI that may be unresponsive during a sync XHR. In that case it should be the app. authors choice which to use. If it is the

Re: [xhr] responseType for sync requests in window context

2012-01-27 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
2012/1/26 Mark Callow callow_m...@hicorp.co.jp: I do not think you should be in the business of brute-forcing authors into converting their applications to use async XHRs. As far as I understand it, it is the application's UI that may be unresponsive during a sync XHR. In that case it should

[xhr] responseType for sync requests in window context

2012-01-10 Thread Jarred Nicholls
Got some reports of broken C/C++ = JS compilers that relied on sync XHR to load resources into an ArrayBuffer (simulating fopen), e.g. Mandreel and Enscripten. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716765 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72154#c43 Is there additional scoping of