Re: CfC: publish new WDs of XHR and XHR2; deadline 18 August

Oracle supports the publishing of these two drafts.

Nikunj
On Aug 13, 2009, at 3:42 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote:

> This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to publish new WDs of the XHR and  
> XHR2 specs.
>
> As with all of our CfCs, positive response is preferred and  
> encouraged and silence will be assumed to be assent. The deadline  
> for comments is August 18.
>
> -Regards, Art Barstow
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: ext Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
>> Date: August 12, 2009 9:05:56 AM EDT
>> To: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
>> Subject: Publishing XMLHttpRequest
>> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/op.uyjvz6x264w2qv@annevk-t60>
>>
>> The last XMLHttpRequest Working Draft was a Last Call Working  
>> Draft. As it turned out a number of changes had to be made again.  
>> Meanwhile HTML5 also got further along and integration with the  
>> event loop as well as the storage mutex was desired. These are now  
>> integrated.
>>
>> The Forms WG asked for a way to set the base URL independently of  
>> the Window object. This is now possible as a side effect of making  
>> XMLHttpRequest ready for Web Workers. Doug Schepers asked for  
>> separate headings for each interface member. This is now done as a  
>> side effect of making the two XMLHttpRequest drafts more alike.
>>
>> Given the number of changes it seems best to simply publish another  
>> Working Draft for now of both XMLHttpRequest and XMLHttpRequest  
>> Level 2 and see where that brings us. It would help if we have more  
>> implementations trying to seriously implement it so we could  
>> declare the draft more stable, but it seems we are not quite there  
>> yet.
>>
>> I'd like to request that we publish these two drafts:
>>
>>  http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/
>>  http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest-2/
>>
>> If the chairs could wave their magic wand that'd be appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Anne van Kesteren
>> http://annevankesteren.nl/
>>
>
>

Nikunj
http://o-micron.blogspot.com

Received on Tuesday, 18 August 2009 22:13:47 UTC