[whatwg] Race condition in media load algorithm

[Chris Pearce]

  On 4/08/2010 11:32 a.m., Ian Hickson wrote:
>
>> In the case of a tasks which invokes an algorithm which has a
>> synchronous section, and then pauses the event loop (such calling
>> window.alert()), we should not run the synchronous section until the
>> event loop pause has completed?
> Currently, yeah. We might want to make "pause" also trigger synchronous
> sections, if that's a problem.
>

Having "pause" trigger synchronous sections is definitely easier for us 
to implement, and would make pausing the event loop consistent with 
spinning the event loop WRT synchronous sections.

Chris P.