Re: XHR LC comments

On Thu, 15 May 2008, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 May 2008, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > > The spec can't be more "ready" than all normative references.
> > 
> > Sure it can. The concept of "origin" (for instance) is pretty well
> > understood by browser vendors, and HTML5 is getting progressively closer to
> > defining it. XHR1 doesn't need it to be perfectly defined to make use of it.
> > Same with Window, probably even more so in fact.
> 
> So why then is the reference to HTML5 needed?

Wouldn't you just complain that Window and 'origin' were totally undefined 
if we used them without referencing something?

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