RE: [XHR] Event processing during synchronous request

2012-09-12 Thread Mike Wilson
Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Mike Wilson mike...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks. So I understand it is the HTML specification reference that provides details on this behaviour for the XHR spec. I'll look further there as its fetching section by itself doesn't

Re: [XHR] Event processing during synchronous request

2012-09-12 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Mike Wilson mike...@hotmail.com wrote: On the other hand, in: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785243 Firefox implementors say that: sync XHR spins the event loop, so events (including async script execution and whatnot) can fire under a sync

Re: [XHR] Event processing during synchronous request

2012-09-12 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 9/12/12 7:35 PM, Mike Wilson wrote: On the other hand, in: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785243 Firefox implementors say that: sync XHR spins the event loop, so events (including async script execution and whatnot) can fire under a sync XHR call. That's a comment about

Re: [XHR] Event processing during synchronous request

2012-09-10 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Mike Wilson mike...@hotmail.com wrote: I didn't find statements directly addressing this in http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/ or http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/fetching-resourc es.html but maybe there are indirect relationships

RE: [XHR] Event processing during synchronous request

2012-09-10 Thread Mike Wilson
Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Mike Wilson mike...@hotmail.com wrote: I didn't find statements directly addressing this in http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/ or http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/fe tching-resourc es.html but

Re: [XHR] Event processing during synchronous request

2012-09-10 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Mike Wilson mike...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks. So I understand it is the HTML specification reference that provides details on this behaviour for the XHR spec. I'll look further there as its fetching section by itself doesn't directly express the relationship

Re: [XHR] Event processing during synchronous request

2012-09-09 Thread Olli Pettay
On 09/09/2012 06:33 PM, Mike Wilson wrote: Is it defined how the browser should behave wrt calling unrelated event handlers in user code during synchronous XHR requests? (with unrelated I refer to events that are not related to the ongoing synchronous request itself) I didn't find statements