On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Aymeric Vitte <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Le 06/07/2012 03:17, Brendan Eich a écrit : > >> Aymeric Vitte wrote: >> >>> Then the sync xhr is absurd ? >>> >> >> It's a botch that developers avoid , else they jank the user interface. >> > Yes, as far as you can or as far as you want to avoid unnecessary > complication, for example projet [1] is loading quite a lot of things using > xhr and scripts (which are loading others), the priority was to load the > user interface as fast as possible (offline feature, etc), then most of the > loadings are async but the sync xhr could not be avoided (easy way > sometimes but as far as I remember not using it could lead to situations > that looked unresolvable) > > We've been over this. Are you seriously defending it? >> > Do we have a survey of the use of sync against async ? I think it would > show that sync is much more used (wrongly or easy way again, but...). I completely disagree with this. Most developers without the knowledge/skill to know why sync is bad are just going to use a library like jQuery - which uses async. I'm not aware of any major library that uses sync as a default for their ajax api or uses sync in their own code. - Russ > The possibility to have a sync xhr remains usefull, but I see that I will > be opposed strong arguments (could not find previous discussions about it). > > If not possible, could we have at least a System.download(url,callback), > as simple as just loading the url content and not caring about what is > inside ? So we have an alternative to creating globals or linking to globals > > [1] : http://www.blimpme.com/mobile/ > > > -- > jCore > Email : [email protected] > Web : www.jcore.fr > Webble : www.webble.it > Extract Widget Mobile : www.extractwidget.com > BlimpMe! : www.blimpme.com > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/**listinfo/es-discuss<https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss> >
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