On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > What about the cursor case though? Given that we're re-using the same request object, I really don't think it makes much sense. J
