Re: XMLHttpRequest Level 1- specification history

On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, David Dailey wrote:
> 
> "The XMLHttpRequest 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#xmlhttprequest> object was 
> initially defined as part of the WHATWG's HTML effort. (Long after 
> Microsoft shipped an implementation.) "
> 
> To me this is ambiguous:
>
> It could either mean 
> 
> 1.  Long after Microsoft had shipped a related implementation, the 
> XMLHttpRequest <http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#xmlhttprequest> 
> object was defined as part of the WHATWG's HTML effort

This is correct.


> 2.        The XMLHttpRequest
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#xmlhttprequest>  object was initially
> defined as part of the WHATWG's HTML effort. (Much later, Microsoft shipped
> an implementation.)

If this was the meaning, you would need a comma after "Long after".

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Received on Saturday, 29 March 2014 23:56:29 UTC