Re: Multipart Support Proposal

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Hey Anne:

On Feb 19, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

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> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:55:18 +0100, Kris Zyp <kzyp@sitepen.com> wrote:
>> Multipart Support
>
> Do we really want to overload XMLHttpRequest with "comet-style"  
> functionality?

I don't have a strong opinion one way or another, but I was simply  
suggesting that we codify what's closest to being most widely  
implemented. Safari is already very close and modulo the big  
connection-level issues, Mozilla is already there.

> XMLHttpRequest is already quite complex. I'd personally (and I think  
> the company I represent would agree) much rather go with the server- 
> sent events proposal in HTML 5. Remove some functionality from it as  
> proposed by the WebKit guys so that it becomes easier to implement  
> and author and ship it.


Perhaps, but server-sent events are *still* silent on the most  
important points:

	* how do you detect connection close?
	* what is/will-be done to ease the 2-connection limit?

I really don't have an opinion about what API surfaces solutions to  
those problems, only that one of them does. As-written, neither  
multipart or server-sent events currently are workable in the wild.

Regards

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Received on Thursday, 21 February 2008 14:52:32 UTC