On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Henri Sivonen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Henri Sivonen <[email protected]> wrote: >> * Making XHR not support HTML parsing in the synchronous mode. > > In reference to the other thread about discouraging synchronous XHR > (outside Workers), this change ended up being made in Gecko. (HTML > parsing in XHR still hasn't made its way to the Nightly channel, so > don't expect to see it quite yet.)
Sounds good. > The side effect is that <meta> prescan doesn't happen in the > synchronous mode for text/html resources. This is displeasingly > inconsistent but makes sense if the sync mode is treated as an evil > legacy feature rather than as an evolving part of the platform. I'm not sure what this means. Aren't we only doing <meta> prescan when parsing a HTML document? / Jonas
