Re: ISSUE-18: Is JSONRequest an acceptable alternative to the current model? [Access Control] from Anne van Kesteren on 2008-01-04 (public-appformats@w3.org from January 2008)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:34:21 +0100
To: "Web Application Formats Working Group WG" <public-appformats@w3.org>
Message-ID: <op.t4e4jjzy64w2qv@annevk-t60.oslo.opera.com>

On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:57:33 +0100, Web Application Formats Working Group  
Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:
> ISSUE-18: Is JSONRequest an acceptable alternative to the current  
> model?  [Access Control]

No, it's not. JSONRequest does not work for the following reasons (not  
exhaustive):

* It doesn't work for XML formats, such as XBL and XSLT. XML formats and  
particularly <?access-control? are one of the main use cases of this  
specification as originally designed.

* It requires a new JavaScript network API that only allows the transport  
of JSON. We already have a JavaScript network API that covers more than  
JSON (simply uses HTTP) -- XMLHttpRequest.

* Having multiple network APIs seems like a bad idea.

I suggest we close this issue.

-- 
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>

Received on Friday, 4 January 2008 18:31:46 UTC