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Re: XMLHttpRequest.responseBlob

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:57:20 +0000 (UTC)
To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Cc: Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org>, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1004262255290.14147@ps20323.dreamhostps.com>
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> >
> > Can we please rename .URN to .URL for consistency with the rest of the 
> > platform? It really sticks out like a sore thumb being the only one 
> > that's different... I'm worried people are going to implement it as is 
> > if we don't update the spec soon.
> 
> For what it's worth, I've implemented it as .url in Firefox.

Any chance we can get that changed to uppercase for consistency with 
Document.URL? I agree that uppercase is not common in the APIs, but I'd 
rather we keep the platform consistent when it comes to attributes with 
the same name rather than have the APIs depend on the prevailing wisdom at 
the time when they were invented...

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