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It would be nice if the fetch algorithm could be passed a parameter to let it make fully synchronous requests with no tasks queued. This would allow me to use it for synchronous XMLHttpRequest. It would be nice all network related activity could be explained via the fetch algorithm rather than a bunch of algorithms looking very similar. (I marked it as P1/critical so I could continue to work on XMLHttpRequest somewhat sooner.)
Actually, why can "pause" not be used for this? The specification itself states: > Pause until either any applicable style sheets > have been fetched and applied, or the user agent > has timed out and decided to not wait for those > style sheets. ... so either that is a bug or it is suitable enough for XMLHttpRequest.
*** Bug 8911 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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