Re: [XHR] Status Update

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
> The WG has published a Candidate Recommendation draft of XMLHttpRequest
> recently:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-XMLHttpRequest-20100803/
>
> My apologies for not announcing this here when it happened.
>
>
> As a result I worked most of last week and a bit during the weekend on a new
> test suite for XMLHttpRequest. The old one had become quite obsolete. I hope
> to put the results of that work online soon so people can take a look and
> maybe contribute the missing pieces. I will email about that separately once
> it is done.
>
>
> As a result of working on the test suite I found a few minor issues that
> would be nice to resolve (I'm not particularly interested in the solution to
> each of these problems, but I thought I would propose one in order to move
> things forward). I filed these bugs on them:
>
>  http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10322
>  http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10323
>  http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10324
>  http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10325
>  http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10326
>  http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10327
>  http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10328
>
> I discussed with Art that I would not make changes to the editor's draft for
> non-editorial changes until the WG agrees to a change. As such I propose we
> have a Call for Consensus for each of the bugs above a couple of days from
> now when people have had a change to take initial look. Bugs with comments
> indicating that my solution may not be correct should be excluded from the
> Call for Consensus until the concerns are addressed in some way.

Some of these bugs are feature enhancements. Such as adding support
for sending and receiving text/html documents. In the interest of
getting us to rec as quickly as possible I suggest that these features
are added to XHR L2 instead.

/ Jonas

Received on Monday, 9 August 2010 18:55:40 UTC