Re: XHR: responseText encoding detection from Alexey Proskuryakov on 2007-02-28 (public-webapi@w3.org from February 2007)

From: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap-carbon@rambler.ru>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:43:25 +0300
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, <public-webapi@w3.org>
Message-ID: <C20B6FBD.3590A%ap-carbon@rambler.ru>

On 2/26/07 3:21 PM, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> wrote:

> But should we really make it be like that? Once HTML5 is there we probably
> want .responseXML to work for text/html documents as well and we probably
> want the encoding to be derived the same way HTML5 specifies it should be
> derived.

  Another consideration: architecturally, it may be unwise to combine both
loading and parsing functionality in a single API.

  For XML parsing, DOM3 Load (or another dedicated API) could provide much
more control. Obviously, we cannot remove responseXML from XMLHttpRequest,
but not adding more known formats sounds like a good idea to me.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov

Received on Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:43:47 UTC