Re: XHR data: and javascript: requests

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> 
> I rather question whether there are actual use cases for this that 
> justify the complexity in an area of code (security checks) where 
> complexity and the attendant potential for bugs is to be avoided at all 
> costs.

The only special case I can think of is getting an XML or HTML file parsed 
into a DOM, which is made redundant with the document.innerHTML idea in 
HTML5. So assuming we have the latter, I'm ok with not having the former.

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Received on Thursday, 4 October 2007 19:08:26 UTC