- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:09:56 +0100
- To: "Web APIs WG \(public\)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
"Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc> > The problem is that many formats can't detect that they have been cut off. > Even for something as strict as XML you could be loosing comments and PIs > at the end of the document if the transation is terminated. The reason > responseXML would be null in mozilla is that we'd get an internal > error-notification from our network layer and would know not to even > attempt parsing. Ah, I see what you mean, if the failure was after partial content had arrived! Yes I agree this would be generally undetectable for a lot of formats. I don't think it's crucial to address this though, recovery from network failure errors are pretty rare things to deal "EEK! there's been an error!" is just about all you can do - even referencing an image or providing a link is basically unsafe from a user perspective. Cheers, Jim.
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