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Bug 13842 - One issue that I have noticed is that there is no way to create an EventSource and attach event listeners to it before it connects to the server. This means that there is no way to ensure that no messages are missed between the creation of the EventSourc
Summary: One issue that I have noticed is that there is no way to create an EventSourc...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HISTORICAL - Server-Sent Events (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-08-19 20:51 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-19 22:05 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-08-19 20:51:11 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
One issue that I have noticed is that there is no way to create an EventSource
and attach event listeners to it before it connects to the server.  This means
that there is no way to ensure that no messages are missed between the
creation of the EventSource instance and the listeners being attached.	One
possible solution would be to move the connection logic from the constructor
to a method (e.g. open).

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-19 22:05:12 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Message event handlers are queue-based, not interrupt-driven, so you have until the time the script ends to set up event handlers.