On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Drew Wilson <atwil...@google.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:18 AM, James Robinson <jam...@google.com> wrote:
>
>> However, users can't usefully check the readyState to see if the WebSocket
>> is still open because there are not and cannot be any
>> synchronization guarantees about when the WebSocket may close.
>>
>>
> Is this true? Based on our prior discussion surrounding cookies, it seems
> like as a general rule we try to keep state from changing dynamically while
> JS code is executing for exactly these reasons.



I think this is a very different beast.  The state of a network connection
may change asynchronously whether we like it or not.  Unlike "who" may
access cookies or local storage, the state of the network connection is not
something we solely control.

-Darin

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