On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, what's the use case for readyState? I can't think of any uses > that we'd want to encourage. Maybe we should just remove it.
The use-case that I've heard in similar situations goes something like this: Code makes a request and at some point later hands the request to some other piece of code which is interested in the result. The other piece of code doesn't necessarily know if a result has been returned yet or not. Using readyState it can either simply get .result, or it can add a event listener for the "success" event and wait for the event to fire. I think that makes sense here too. / Jonas
