On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Anne van Kesteren<ann...@opera.com> wrote: > On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:04:28 +0200, Arun Ranganathan <a...@mozilla.com> > wrote: >> >> In the case of file read APIs, simply getting the data asynchronously is >> more convenient than using events. There is no intrigue at work here, >> merely disagreement. > > I could imagine that for reading data you might want to have events though > so that in the future we can introduce progress events if that is found > necessary. E.g. if the actual file is not on the same computer as where the > user selected it.
Do you have a proposal for what this would look like? I'm not excited about creating something that's significantly more complex than the current API. / Jonas
