Re: XHR responseArrayBuffer attribute: suggestion to replace "asBlob" with "responseType" from Boris Zbarsky on 2010-11-03 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2010)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:16:39 -0400
To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
CC: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Geoffrey Garen <ggaren@apple.com>, Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org>, Chris Rogers <crogers@google.com>, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com>, michaeln@google.com, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap@webkit.org>, Chris Marrin <cmarrin@apple.com>, jorlow@google.com, jamesr@chromium.org
Message-ID: <4CD0E227.60404@mit.edu>

On 11/2/10 11:35 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> So your concern is that jQuery will update to use the new API before
> browsers implement it. And then once browsers do implement it and
> start honoring the .responseType by making various existing properties
> throw, things will fail?

No, my concern is that browsers will implement this, and then sites that 
haven't updated their jquery, and probably never plan to do it, will 
start using the new stuff browsers have implemented.

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 3 November 2010 04:17:29 UTC