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 between > specification sections that I am missing?
What you are missing is that for synchronous fetching the event loop stops working so incoming events will not be processed. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/