- From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:02:44 +1000
- To: public-webapi@w3.org
Hi Maciej. Maciej Stachowiak: > The easiest way to ensure that getURL() and postURL() could be > implemented with XMLHttpRequest behind the scenses is to define them > in terms of equivalent XHR operations and normatively reference XHR > (implementations would be required to act as if it had been > implemented this way). This may indeed be the easiest way, but I am sure there will be significant push-back on adding another normative dependency that is still in WD. > Better still would be to drop them and replace them with a requirement > to support XHR, since they provide a subset of its functionality > without significant added convenience. There is a fair amount of content out there that uses these methods, their having been introduced by ASV, so I don’t think it’s feasible to just drop them. -- Cameron McCormack, http://mcc.id.au/ xmpp:heycam@jabber.org ▪ ICQ 26955922 ▪ MSN cam@mcc.id.au
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