13842 2011-08-19 20:51:11 +0000 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 2011-08-19 22:05:12 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG HISTORICAL - Server-Sent Events (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian mike public-webapps public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 55510 0 contributor 2011-08-19 20:51:11 +0000 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). Posted from: 207.67.82.250 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 55513 1 ian 2011-08-19 22:05:12 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html 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.