> 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. -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/469BEE26-2A5A-4AA8-AE82-F20EC0B5C964%40nbtsc.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
