- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:21:22 -0400
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: public-script-coord@w3.org
On 8/4/11 12:38 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:24:58 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: >> In Gecko, undefined used to be treated as "not specified" for >> XMLHttpRequest. When we changed to following the current spec (which >> converts undefined to "undefined") we actually ran into compat issues >> with some popular JS libraries that pass undefined for >> username/password explicitly. For now we're sticking it out, but it >> sure would be nice to not have those compat issues! > > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest-2/ seems to just defer to > IDL as far as I can tell. If the IDL or method descriptions need > changing please let public-webapps@w3.org know. It's not clear to me that there's a way to express the old (web-compatible, imo) behavior in idl. That's what this discussion is about! -Boris
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