RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

If this is the case, it shouldn't be too much work then to take out the parts that don't need to be implemented and put them into a separate, rec-track document entitled roughly "XHR for HTML5."
Leigh. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonas Sicking [mailto:jonas@sicking.cc] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:04 PM
To: Klotz, Leigh
Cc: Ian Hickson; Anne van Kesteren; WebApps WG; Forms WG
Subject: Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

Note that just referring to a few specific concepts defined in HTML5 does not force anyone to implement the rest of HTML5. As things stand right now it's quite possible to implement XMLHttpRequest according to spec, without implementing almost anything in the HTML5 spec.

Put it another way, abstracting out these concepts from the HTML5 spec would on a technical level not change what anyone would need to implement.

/ Jonas

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Klotz, Leigh <Leigh.Klotz@xerox.com> wrote:
> I'll take this as a "No" and we'll discuss it in the Forms WG next year when we pick up again.
> Happy Holidays, Ian, Anne, and all.
>
> Leigh.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Hickson [mailto:ian@hixie.ch]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:54 AM
> To: Klotz, Leigh
> Cc: Anne van Kesteren; WebApps WG; Forms WG
> Subject: RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG
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> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Klotz, Leigh wrote:
>>
>> Therefore, even in the light of the changes in details I've cited 
>> (and your kind corrections for my errors and outdated imformation), 
>> our request that you abstract out the dependencies on HTML5 into a 
>> separate document (perhaps part of the HTML5 family, perhaps not) still stands.
>
> This would be a colossal amount of work, for which we unfortunately do not have any volunteers.
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