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

>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.

Received on Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:36:58 UTC