On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Peter Sorotokin wrote: > > Yes, we indeed modeled URLRequest after XMLHttpRequest, it is designed > to be basically just as simple to use with just a little bit of extra > power. Everyone who used XMLHttpRequest or IE's MS.XMLHTTP should feel > right at home. Given that XMLHttpRequest has multiple interoperable implementations (at least four, so far, on at least half a dozen different platforms), was any thought given to just using XMLHttpRequest outright? It would be unfortunate if implementations that support both SVG and HTML had to implement both interfaces. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:10:49 GMT
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