- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:34:57 +0200
- To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:19:08 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote: > 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. > > Just in case this wasn't clear, consider this implementor feedback that > I consider this to be a bad idea. I've spent a while over the last few > years eliminating this sort of special-casing in the Gecko code, and I > pretty strongly oppose reintroducing it. Ok, I removed support for data: URIs in the latest editor draft because there are no convincing use cases: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/ -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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