Re: XMLHttpRequest: uppercasing method names

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If there's no really good reason to change it, least change is better IMO
>
> All I can think of is that it would be somewhat more consistent to not
> have this list and always uppercase,


Ideally


> but yeah, I guess I'll just align
> fetch() with XMLHttpRequest.
>

Isn't it an option that we use stricter rule (all uppercase) for the
newly-introduced fetch() API but keep the list for XHR? Aligning XHR and
fetch() is basically good but making fetch() inherit the whitelist is a
little sad.



Some archaeology:

- Blink recently reduced the whitelist to conform to the latest WHATWG XHR
spec. http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?view=revision&revision=176592
- Before that, used this list ported to WebKit from Firefox's behavior
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/13652/trunk/WebCore/xml/xmlhttprequest.cpp
- Anne introduced the initial version of the part of the spec in Aug 2006
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/Overview.html.diff?r1=1.12;r2=1.13;f=h
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