- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:35:56 +0200
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
On 08/10/2014 16:08 , Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 10/8/14, 2:17 AM, Robin Berjon wrote: >> NB: the spec also claims that XMLDocument.load() is relied upon by >> content in the wild. Is that really true? > > It was last we checked, sadly. > >> It's broken almost everywhere > > Details? Lack of UA interop here _could_ indicate that the situation > has changed. Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I can't get the following to return anything in Chrome Canary, WebKit nightly, or IE11: document.implementation.createDocument(null, null, null).load Only in Firefox do I get a method, which I can call to actually load some XML. If it's used, maybe it's in some really ancient code from before Gecko supported XHR? How long ago was that? >> and strikes me a particularly useless. > > Insofar as it can be replaced by XMLHttpRequest, you mean? Yup. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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