LGTM2 (% Mike's question)

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 5:04 AM Mike West <mk...@chromium.org> wrote:

> LGTM1.
>
> The risks you point to seem minor, and following along with Safari's
> implementation makes it more likely that we can land the feature in a way
> that sticks. Do you have insight into Mozilla's implementation progress?
>
> -mike
>
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 12:47 AM Scott Haseley <shase...@chromium.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Contact emailsshase...@chromium.org
>>
>> Explainerhttps://github.com/shaseley/abort-signal-any/blob/main/README.md
>>
>> Specificationhttps://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-abortsignal-any
>> https://wicg.github.io/scheduling-apis/#dom-tasksignal-any (TaskSignal
>> specialization)
>>
>> Design docs
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LvmsBLV85p-PhSGvTH-YwgD6onuhh1VXLg8jPlH32H4/edit#heading=h.xp6e50wyimb4
>>
>> Summary
>>
>> AbortSignal.any(signals) returns a signal that is aborted when any of the
>> source signals are aborted. Developers can use this to combine independent
>> abort sources, e.g. timeouts specified with AbortSignal.timeout() and
>> signals associated with user input, and pass them to async APIs like
>> fetch().
>>
>> Comments
>> This intent also includes TaskSignal.any(), which is a specialization of
>> AbortSignal.any() (TaskSignal inherits from AbortSignal) for
>> https://wicg.github.io/scheduling-apis/. The specialization behaves the
>> same for abort, but returns a TaskSignal with the priority bit initialized
>> from the additional optional parameter. TaskSignal is only implemented in
>> Chromium, and this is a small addition to keep the API in sync with the
>> base class.
>>
>> Blink componentBlink>DOM
>> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EDOM>
>>
>> TAG reviewhttps://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/737
>>
>> TAG review statusIssues addressed
>>
>> Risks
>>
>>
>> Interoperability and Compatibility
>>
>> There's a slight compat risk resulting from spec changes associated with
>> the new feature.
>>
>>
>> Signals could previously be combined (in specs) similarly using the
>> "follow" algorithm, which was replaced with a new algorithm for creating a
>> dependent signal. The new algorithm changes the order the abort event is
>> propagated between source and dependent signals, which was done to optimize
>> memory management (one of the API goals) and limit complexity. This is
>> observable in two ways: 1. In fetch, `new Request(url, {signal})` and
>> `request.clone()` made a "copy" of the input signal using "follow", so the
>> relative order of 'abort' events between 'signal' and `request.signal` can
>> change. For example: ``` // Previously, handler2 ran before handler1, if
>> the signal is aborted. signal.addEventListener('abort', handler1); const r
>> = new Request(url, {signal}); r.signal.addEventListener('abort', handler2);
>> ``` `clone()` is similar (one WPT test was changed for the new
>> expectation). 2. Our cache.addAll() implementation had an unspecced use of
>> "follow" that could result in 'abort' events firing when they shouldn't
>> have. This was fixed. The risk seems low here, and we didn't think changing
>> the API implementation to ensure this order was worth the
>> complexity/optimization limitations. The feature can be disabled via kill
>> switch (AbortSignalAny) if necessary.
>>
>>
>> *Gecko*: Positive (
>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/774)
>>
>> *WebKit*: Shipped/Shipping (
>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256176)
>>
>> *Web developers*: No signals
>>
>> Probably "mildly positive":
>>  - 4 stars on implementation bug (crbug.com/13233910)
>>  - Discussion/motivation on DOM issue (
>> https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/920
>>  - A couple libraries implement something similar (
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/ve96pn/abortcontroller_is_your_friend/
>> )
>>
>> *Other signals*:
>> Implemented in Node.js: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/47821
>>
>> Ergonomics
>>
>> This is designed to be used with other AbortSignal APIs (AbortController
>> and AbortSignal.timeout), and improves ergonomics of handling multiple
>> signals.
>>
>>
>> Activation
>>
>> The feature would benefit from a polyfill.
>>
>>
>> Security
>>
>> None.
>> https://github.com/shaseley/abort-signal-any/blob/main/tag-questionnaire.md
>>
>>
>> WebView application risks
>>
>> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that
>> it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
>>
>> See compat section.
>>
>>
>> Debuggability
>>
>> Basic support only.
>>
>>
>> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac,
>> Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?Yes
>>
>> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
>> ?Yes
>>
>> Flag name--enable-blink-features=AbortSignalAny
>>
>> Requires code in //chrome?False
>>
>> Tracking bughttps://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1323391
>>
>> Estimated milestones
>> Shipping on desktop 116
>> Shipping on Android 116
>> Shipping on WebView 116
>>
>> Anticipated spec changes
>>
>> Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or
>> interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues
>> in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may
>> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of
>> the API in a non-backward-compatible way).
>>
>>
>> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5202879349522432
>>
>> Links to previous Intent discussionsIntent to prototype:
>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAKXGoJ2siKxHbAB3YL%2BX1%2BNvRvOXGYKCc_Ybyq7azqd-_AS4rg%40mail.gmail.com
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