I implemented it exactly as Daniel described in the rewrite and I do believe it's the most logical thing to do.
2010/1/17 Daniel Friesen <nadir.seen.f...@gmail.com> > Isn't that a loose use of the term "success" originating in confusion > caused by abstraction? > > We call it "success" because that's it's a word describing what we expect > it to do. The browser's actual xhr has no concept of "success" on it's own, > that is determined by the library/application based on completion, http > error codes, etc... The real "success" we are firing that method in jQuery > on to xhr is actually the concept of completion of the xhr call, coupled > with a non-fatal status code. The browser ends up firing "success" because > by calling abort we cancel all the remote interaction and bring it to it's > finished state, hence it is complete. readyState == 4 is really "DONE", not > "success", it's an indication that the xhr has been opened and whether it > succeeded, failed, or aborted the request is over and is no longer doing > anything. > > I think calling error: with a statusText of "abort" would be the more > intuitive way of handling this. > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] > > > John Resig wrote: > >> It's not really clear what it should call - maybe it should only call >> the complete request and neither the error or success. When I looked >> into it recently some browsers called success and some called nothing >> (Opera). I normalized it to success across the board but I'm open to >> further debate. >> >> --John >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:47 PM, alexander farkas >> <a.farkas...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> Is it intended, that aborting an Ajax will call the complete calback >>> with the status "success" + the success-callback? In most cases noone >>> wants to handle an aborted request in his success-callback. I think, >>> you should introduce a new xhr-event/callback 'abort'. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "jQuery Development" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to jquery-...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<jquery-dev%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jQuery Development" group. > To post to this group, send email to jquery-...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<jquery-dev%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en. > > > >--
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