[whatwg] Behavior when <script> is removed from DOM

Tab Atkins Jr. jackalmage at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 11:30:43 PST 2011


On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
> The main use case for wanting to support scripts getting appears to be
> wanting to abort JSONP loads. Potentially to issue it with new
> parameters. This is a decent use case, but given the racyness
> described above in webkit, it doesn't seem like a reliable technique
> in existing browsers.

If it's unreliable *and* no sites appear to break with the proper
behavior, we shouldn't care about this use-case, since cross-domain
XHR solves it properly.

~TJ



More information about the whatwg mailing list