On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Douglas Crockford wrote: > > > You need to define precisely what happens in the context of the > > receiver when it handles a message. Does script processing suspend for > > that time? Or does it run in parallel to handling the message? > > The sender is suspended until the receiver returns.
As a quick note, in general we're trying to get away from synchronous scripting. It causes too many problems, especially in browsers written around a single UI thread on which JS runs. Several APIs are having to be grandfathered in -- window.alert(), for instance -- but as a rule none of the new APIs should be synchronous. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
