On 5/13/10 7:55 PM, Perry Smith wrote:
Its not that hard and it won't happen that often. And it gives the javascript authors more control and choices.
If a situation doesn't happen often, then historically speaking most authors will have no provisions to handle it. Try browsing the web with non-default colors set in your browser, with a default font size that's not 16px, or with a 13px minimum font size set. These aren't exactly hard things to deal with, but authors just don't deal with them. I sincerely doubt they'd deal with the possibility of a websocket not actually opening unless is was _very_ common.
Maybe the spec should say that attempts to open a websocket should have a 50% chance of failing even if there's no good reason for it, just so it is in fact common for opening to fail? ;) (No, that's not a completely serious proposal, but it's not completely facetious either; it would take something like that for authors to handle failure properly.)
-Boris
