Florian: I ain't got a problem with synchronous calls. Its just that I had the need to rant because the rift between you guys and simple developer folks is getting deeper every day. If somebody fucks up his web site because he doesn't get the differences between asynchronous and synchronous calls, that's his prerogative.
m. On 02/06/2015 12:50 PM, Florian Bösch wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Michaela Merz <michaela.m...@hermetos.com <mailto:michaela.m...@hermetos.com>> wrote: > > it would be the job of the browser development community to find a way to make such calls less harmful. > > If there was a way to make synchronous calls less harmful, it'd have been implemented a long time ago. There isn't. > > You could service synchronous semantics with co-routine based schedulers. It wouldn't block the main thread, but there'd still be nothing going on while your single-threaded code waits for the XHR to complete, and so it's still bad UX. Solving the bad UX would require you to deal with the scheduler (spawn microthreads that do other things so it's not bad UX). Regardless, ES-discuss isn't fond of co-routines, so that's not gonna happen.
