mapbox/tilemill — Issue #939: Cancel unnecessary tile requests in progress
Author: willwhite
Created: 2011-11-19 20:25:09+00:00
State: open

When you're dealing with a large project, we know that tiles can take a long time to load. Unfortunately, the TileMill UI can become completely unresponsive while the browser waits for the tile requests to respond. I think the initial ~five tile requests fill up a queue in the browser and prevent any other requests from being sent.

I wonder if it's possible to cancel these requests in cases like:

- User opens the layer add/layer panel
- User open the layer inspector
- User open the project settings panel
- User closes the project

Needs research about canceling HTTP requests. I'm not sure if that possible.

Would help: #938, #882