- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:49:37 +0200
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On 09.08.2010 22:25, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:54:48 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: >> 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. > > Actually, by virtue of following the Document.innerHTML algorithm from > HTML5 sending HTML documents is already covered for in XMLHttpRequest. > It is just that the media type (as the bug indicates) is always set to > application/xml rather than text/html for HTML documents. > > Receiving HTML documents would indeed be a newish feature, except that > you already need to follow HTML5 rules to discover the character > encoding for responseText, etc. so adding this did not seem like a big > burden on implementations on top of which it makes sense that if you can > send them (which was already possible) you can also receive them. > ... I sure hope nobody follows HTML5 for the encoding detection :-). See <http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9628>, raised over three months ago. Best regards, Julian
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