[xhr] responseType for sync requests in window context

Got some reports of broken C/C++ => JS compilers that relied on sync XHR to load resources into an ArrayBuffer (simulating fopen), e.g. Mandreel and Enscripten.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716765
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72154#c43

Is there additional scoping of the restriction we should consider?  Thoughts?

Jarred

Received on Wednesday, 11 January 2012 06:02:54 UTC