8256 2009-11-10 16:43:20 +0000 [gs] Is form.submit() async or sync? I don't see where this is defined. From my reading it should be sync, as it should just run the steps to completion. 2010-10-04 13:59:37 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-form-element NE P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian geoffers+w3cbugs ian micdesim mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 29490 0 contributor 2009-11-10 16:43:20 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-form-element Comment: [gs] Is form.submit() async or sync? I don't see where this is defined. From my reading it should be sync, as it should just run the steps to completion. Posted from: 88.131.66.80 29492 1 geoffers+w3cbugs 2009-11-10 17:59:29 +0000 It's async in Opera, Firefox, and Chromium. The spec should probably make it clear this should be async. 30459 2 ian 2010-01-05 07:31:12 +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: The answer is "both"; it starts off synchronous, and goes "into the background" later. The spec seems well-defined already. When submit() is invoked, the submission algorithm is invoked, which means running through a bunch of steps, and which ends with calling the Navigate algorithm, which itself runs through a bunch of steps, including some that switch to being asynchronous. I don't really see what needs clarifying. Just walk through the steps in the spec and it all just falls out, as far as I can tell.