On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Chris Pearce wrote: > > So the task spinning the event loop has run up to the point of spinning > the event loop, then we run the synchronous section, and then the task > which was spinning the event loop will resume after its goal is met at > some later time?
Sounds right. > In the case of a tasks which invokes an algorithm which has a > synchronous section, and then pauses the event loop (such calling > window.alert()), we should not run the synchronous section until the > event loop pause has completed? Currently, yeah. We might want to make "pause" also trigger synchronous sections, if that's a problem. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'