Re: XMLHttpRequest Level 1- specification history

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, David Dailey wrote:
> >
> > "The XMLHttpRequest
> > <http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#xmlhttprequest> object was
> > initially defined as part of the WHATWG's HTML effort. (Long after
> > Microsoft shipped an implementation.) "
> >
> > To me this is ambiguous:
> >
> > It could either mean
> >
> > 1.  Long after Microsoft had shipped a related implementation, the
> > XMLHttpRequest <http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#xmlhttprequest>
> > object was defined as part of the WHATWG's HTML effort
>
> This is correct.
>
>
I presume the author originally put the part rather informatively. I made
it a single sentence as clarified here:
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/raw-file/default/xhr-1/Overview.html#specification-history

Thanks,


>
> > 2.        The XMLHttpRequest
> > <http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#xmlhttprequest>  object was
> initially
> > defined as part of the WHATWG's HTML effort. (Much later, Microsoft
> shipped
> > an implementation.)
>
> If this was the meaning, you would need a comma after "Long after".
>
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