Re: [XHR] send doesn’t explain what to do when method is GET

Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
>>> No.  Look, if you don't want to have to take on the extra work of
>>> fully supporting HTTP (for what is, admittedly, currently a fringe
>>> case), fine, don't.  Just please don't ask that we tell those who are
>>> willing to do so, that they can't.
>>
>> Given that none of the current browsers support this today, I'm not 
>> sure who we would help by saying that this is non-conformant behavior.
> 
> The suggestion was *not* to say anything about it, and just to rely on 
> the normative spec for it, which is RFC2616 now and will be RFC2616bis 
> in the future.

But not saying anything is likely to hurt compatibility between 
implementations and make authors rely on features that only work in some 
browsers.

/ Jonas

Received on Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:37:58 UTC