On 5/13/11 4:07 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
It *does* however call for a readystatechange event to be fired in response to the call to .open. Even if the request being started is a synchronous one.What is the use case for this event? It seems pretty useless and inconsistent to me.
I believe web pages depend on this to some extent; the fact that Gecko used to not fire it caused all sorts of compat issues. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313646
-Boris
