> On Oct 28, 2014, at 1:20 AM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >  you've only synchronous XHR to do that,
> 
> You've made me think about this.  I rejected sync XHR out-of-hand because the 
> user interface would be blocked which of course is a horrible idea.  But the 
> Atom editor only hits the disk to load/save source files and sometimes to 
> load/save options.  And of course it hits it a lot when the app is loading.  
> When editing a source file the disk it silent.  So maybe sync XHR is worth 
> considering.

Makes sense!

So Atom pinwheels when the disk is slow?

> >  it's pretty restricted since all the new features of XHR aren't allowed in 
> > sync mode.
> 
> What features would I be missing?  I can't imagine anything other than making 
> normal http requests.

Binary data handling and some of the XHR2 features, I believe.

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