Engineer @ Google working on web tooling: Headless Chrome, Puppeteer, Lighthouse
Heads up! The XMLHttpRequest2 spec was recently changed to prohibit sending a synchronous request when xhr.responseType is set.
The idea behind the change is to help mitigate further usage of synchronous xhrs wherever possible.
For example, the following code will now throw an INVALID_ACCESS_ERR in developer channel builds of Chrome and FF:
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.responseType = 'arraybuffer';
xhr.open('GET', '/', false); // sync request
xhr.send();
This is a generally a great change for the web, but it has the potential to break some existing apps that were relying on synchronous behavior. Please look over your XHR code and update it ASAP to use asynchronous requests.
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