Re: The XMLHttpRequest Object comments

On Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 12:10:55 PM, Anne wrote:

AvK> On Tue, 08 May 2007 01:16:57 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
AvK> wrote:
>> On May 7, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Innovimax SARL wrote:
>>> I agree that it seems strange to have an "XML"HttpRequest that does not  
>>> support XML at all !!

>> I don't necessarily agree with that, I can see that non-XML UAs may  
>> still want to support it only for transmitting text. But I think there  
>> should be a conformance class that does include the XML support, even if  
>> the baseline conforming implementation doesn't.

AvK> That makes sense. I added a "conforming XML user agent" class. I hope this
AvK> satisfies the people who replied in this thread (all in To:).

That works for me. 

Higher-level specs that normatively refer to XHR can always mandate that optional conformance class.


AvK> (I'm treating the comment from Stewart Brodie as a separate comment.)






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