On Aug 5, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > In practice, what Gecko would likely do here is to treat "stable state" as > "the event loop is spinning", just like we would for the other case. This > means that while a modal dialog is up, or a sync XHR is running or whatnot is > a stable state. >
FWIW this is what WebKit does now, assuming you mean *asynch* XHR. eric