Re: XHR responseArrayBuffer attribute: suggestion to replace "asBlob" with "responseType"

On 10/27/10 3:46 PM, Michael Nordman wrote:
>     Note, by the way, that for XML and HTML types, one is required (per
>     current XHR spec) to instantiate an XML or HTML parser,
>     respectively, to produce the responseText (because the data can
>     declare its own encoding in things like <meta> tags).  I'm not sure
>     whether that complicates the other interfaces being proposed.... I
>     guess they could do that under the hood.  But they point is they'd
>     need to know the MIME type, not just the data.
>
>
> So an XMLParser would need more than just the raw data, ok.

That's obviously true, and isn't what I said...

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 19:59:48 UTC