1051130 - Make SpeechGrammarList's addFromURI/addFromString async with Promise

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Andre Natal]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140716183446

Comment 1

[Andre Natal]

There is a bug at W3C Bugzilla requesting to Fix the draft here: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26520

We need to modify our implementation of SpeechGrammarList to work async with Promise

Comment 2

[Andre Natal]

Should we move forward with this even while W3C does not reply or is better wait ?

Comment 3

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

AFAIK no one else implements those methods anyway, and adding return value
shouldn't break existing code anyway.

Comment 4

[kdavis]

I'd prefer to stick with the spec until W3C responds to our bug[1]. In the mean time the methods
can simply be synchronous.

[1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26520

Comment 5

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Well, we can't load synchronously from network.
(sync IO is not acceptable on main thread)

Comment 6

[kdavis]

I'll assume for the moment that "sync IO is not acceptable on main thread".

Must addFromURI and addFromString be called from the main thread? What of,
for example, web workers?

Comment 7

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Well, we don't have any speech API stuff on workers. But yes, there sync operations would be ok.

Comment 8

[kdavis]

In light of the movement of the grammar check to start() in Bug 1185018
this bug is invalid.