On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > > Hear hear. Indeed, a large part of moving to a "living standard" model is > > all about maintaining the agility to respond to changes to avoid having to > > make this very kind of assertion. > > See > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2014JanMar/thread.html#msg232 > > for why we added a warning to the specification. It was thought that if > we made a collective effort we can steer people away from depending on > this.
The text of the warning seems fine to me. It doesn't make any assertions about the future as far as I can tell; it just discourages use of a feature and says that we hope to remove it. If we are ever to remove something as widely used as sync XHR, this kind of advocacy seems like a prerequisite. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'