1102445 - Allow long operations to be aborted

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools Graveyard :: WebIDE, defect)

Description

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

In bug 1055011, we considered offering a "cancel" button for long-running tasks, like:

* connecting with a long timeout
* uploading an app (esp. pre-bulk data)

but it seemed tricky, since we just store a promise.

I believe we could hack in an "abort" event or some such for the tasks where it makes sense.  This is similiar to the non-standard AbortablePromise[1] that B2G wants to use.

[1]: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/webidl/AbortablePromise.webidl

Comment 1

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

We intend to move remote debugging into about:debugging (bug 1212802) and then remove WebIDE (bug 1314811), so there are no plans to improve the WebIDE UX at this time.