Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Synchronous XMLHttpRequest deprecated Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 12:06:58 +0200 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <5521ac06$0$2891$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <3049656.CVpVeAz9R9@PointedEars.de> <5523844e$0$2868$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <4553250.RFBzHSfbcC@PointedEars.de> <5523d3ad$0$2946$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <2512383.9XA8ILVfRL@PointedEars.de> <5523ef84$0$2911$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <070420151603306966%timstreater@greenbee.net> <5523fc1b$0$2890$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <9585d114-082a-49b0-9c3c-185708e2a256n@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net FZyd+hN0cuFc6yCMi719uwak4tX7f+4xvY6/9BtVwFazzpLxgs Cancel-Lock: sha1:VarZhz/y47RqS3M2B+fKXI4pTus= Content-Language: de-DE In-Reply-To: <9585d114-082a-49b0-9c3c-185708e2a256n@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:40924 Robert Zeurunkl: > Google seems to think that all software HAS a user interface. Or > even a user. Which is the case as long as the request is executed in a browser. > Synchronous server requests are a perfectly reasonable thing to do in > some circumstances. And I agree with the author that such a decision > belongs to the application developer, not the browser maker. What kind of *browsers* don't have a user interface? And using a request which blocks the whole UI until there is a response from the server *is* a bad thing. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de