Re: [XHR2] overrideMimeType from Jonas Sicking on 2007-07-29 (public-webapi@w3.org from July 2007)

From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:21:20 -0700
To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org>
Message-ID: <46ACF6C0.8060806@sicking.cc>

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>> It is a bit quirky behavior though since setting overrideMimeType 
>> could then change the encoding and therefor both responseXML and 
>> responseText.
> 
> If XHR2 offers responseBody with a raw byte array of some kind, it will 
> be required for implementations to keep the raw bytes around anyway.

Yep. Though it still seems weird to me that responseText would change 
when .overrideMimeType is changed. How do you guys deal with this situation?

/ Jonas

Received on Sunday, 29 July 2007 20:22:02 UTC