RE: XMLHttpRequest Level 1- specification history

On Saturday, March 29, 2014 7:56 PM

Ian Hickson wrote

>> 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.

>> 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".

Yes, though if the first reading was intended, the sentence should have had
a verb. As someone who observes a lot of grammar errors in student papers,
it seems that leaving out commas is a lot more likely than leaving out
verbs.

Cheers
David

Received on Sunday, 30 March 2014 11:17:20 UTC