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We're running into problems because we're making several SQLite queries to populate offline data from the local db.  We need to know when they are *all* complete before moving on.  As many know, querying a local db from the browser is an asynchronous call.  When jQuery 1.5 came out, I thought formally incorporating the "promise" architecture into the framework was the answer to my prayers.  While I was able to make it work to some degree, combining the "deferreds" has gotten problematic.

Lots of discussion about using deferred with ajax and/or animation.  But the DB screams out for this at least as loudly as the ajax calls.  I'm making say, 7 different queries that all need to be done before the user can start entering data.  Right now, we've put in a 10-second, hard-coded delay to give the browser enough time to complete all it can.  Honestly, I'm quite embarassed to admit that but I wasn't getting any traction and we needed to make progress.

I still think deferred is the way to accomplish this.  Probably some basic misinterpretation of the examples and/or documentation on my part is leading to this frustration.  Is anyone else out there using deferred this way?  My original post was here (http://forum.jquery.com/topic/deferred-sqlite-execution).

Any thoughts and/or discussion is welcome.  I really want to solve this in a elegant, reliable way.  The hard-coded delay leaves much to be desired!

Scott.