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Bug 19665 - It could be interesting to be able to do event.stopPropagation() to cancel new version download (slow network, intensive downloads processing...)
Summary: It could be interesting to be able to do event.stopPropagation() to cancel ne...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-10-23 12:07 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-01-30 23:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-10-23 12:07:43 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/offline.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#downloading-or-updating-an-application-cache
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#downloading-or-updating-an-application-cache

Comment:
It could be interesting to be able to do event.stopPropagation() to cancel new
version download (slow network, intensive downloads processing...)

Posted from: 90.18.244.150 by nfroidure@elitwork.com
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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-01-30 23:02:22 UTC 
If we were to do this we'd probably be more likely to do it by providing methods for pausing and resuming, or some such. But really, the browser is in a much better position to know when it's a good idea to actually do to the updates and when the network is being heavily used, so I don't think we should provide a feature like this to the author, at least not without significant evidence that it would be really helpful.