[email protected] wrote:
Sorry. As with showModalDialog() we would really like to make this
> feature disappear. I realize this makes some forms of code generation
> harder, but hopefully you can find a way around that in time.
Perhaps we should set some sense of expectation about*when* it won't work.
Different parts of the Web move on different timelines.
Right.
Also (I am a WHATWG cofounder) it is overreach to promise obsolescence
on any timeline on the Web. Robert should not worry about real browser
implementors breaking content by removing sync XHR -- to do so would be
to lose market share.
In this light, WHATWG should avoid making indefinite-timescale,
over-ambitious assertions. The W3C was rightly faulted when we founded
the WHATWG for doing so.
/be
