Re: Spec organizations and prioritization

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:56:41 -0700, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>  
wrote:
> I acknowledge that there is a cost in managing what I'm suggesting (and
> I'll try to share some of my thoughts on that as well later on);
> XMLHttpRequest seems certainly a good use case to look at. My
> recollection is that XMLHttpRequest Level 1 bundled a number of
> "features" that nobody was in a hurry to implement, which I think killed
> it — that doesn't seem inconsistent with what I'm suggesting.
>
> Is there a subset of XMLHttpRequest Level 1 that would have worked — I
> think so, based on fact that every browser out there implements XHR, and
> there seems to be pretty good interoperability. How difficult it would
> be to design a spec around that subset, I can't tell; but I think that
> subset could have become a Recommendation years ago.

All the features were implemented long ago. That was never the problem.  
The problem is edge cases and getting implementations aligned.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:05:00 UTC