Re: What is Microsoft's intent with XDR vis-à-vis W3C? [Was: Re: IE Team's Proposal for Cross Site Requests]

On Mar 26, 2008, at 14:36, Travis Leithead  
<travil@windows.microsoft.com> wrote:

>> I strongly object to the Web API working group adopting a proprietary
>> solution developed by one vendor with no external consultation,  
>> when the
>> group has already spent several man-years' worth of time on a
>> technologically superior, safer, and more comprehensive solution  
>> that has
>> as much implementation experience and significantly more authoring
>> experience, based on extending existing APIs instead of arbitarily
>> introducing new, incompatible APIs.
>
> I don't see how introducing a new object is 'incompatible'. It seems  
> to have the same degree of 'compatibility' as introducing new APIs  
> on the XHR object.

The XHR2 proposal isn't a new API. It's the same API for same-domain  
as cross-domain requests.

-- 
Ian Hickson