On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Ben Kelly <bke...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 2:05 AM, Andrea Marchesini < > amarches...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> Abort API is already part of the DOM spec and I would like to enable it by >> default everywhere in our codebase (dom.abortController.enabled). Abort + >> Fetch integration is not part of the spec yet. There is a read-ish >> pull-request, but as soon as it is merged, I would like to enable the >> second pref as well (dom.abortController.fetch.enabled). >> > > I don't understand why we would potentially ship these separately. AFAICT > the abort API is only really useful if its integrated into something like > fetch(). Currently the Fetch API is the only part of the platform that > uses it. > > Also, we have seen people do thing like feature detect for ReadableStream > and assume Response.body can be a ReadableStream. This is why we are not > shipping the js ReadableStream until the fetch body stream can ship as > well. I worry that people would do a similar kind of feature detection > with Abort API. > > Also, while the fetch+abort spec change has not landed yet, we pretty much > have consensus. There are WPT tests in the tree already. I don't think > this is what is blocking shipping the fetch+abort code. To me its a bigger > issue that we still don't pass many of those WPT tests. If we passed the > tests then I think we could reasonably ship it given the current level of > consensus on the spec. > I spoke with Andrea and Jake (the spec author on this feature) a bit this morning. Our current test failures are all reasonable for different reasons: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1394085#c4 So I would just like to see bug 1394102 land before we let abortable fetch ride the trains. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
