Re: XHR data: and javascript: requests from Boris Zbarsky on 2007-10-04 (public-webapi@w3.org from October 2007)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:44:52 -0500
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
CC: "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
Message-ID: <47055ED4.7040407@mit.edu>

Ian Hickson wrote:
> The only special case I can think of is getting an XML or HTML file parsed 
> into a DOM

Frankly, either the innerHTML thing or something like Gecko's DOMParser seems 
like a much much better approach to this than hacking together XMLHttpRequest 
with a data: URI that you then have to generate, etc.

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 4 October 2007 21:45:21 UTC