[whatwg] JSONRequest

• From: Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>
• Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:31:12 +0000
• Message-ID: <441E8470.6050500@mozilla.org>

Douglas Crockford wrote:
> The JSONRequest does only one thing:
<snip>

Are you planning to take the excellent advice from <I forget who> to
change the name? The name XmlHttpRequest sucks because it doesn't
necessarily return XML, and it doesn't have to be over HTTP. Let's not
tie the name of a new thing solely to the way we use it at the moment.

Why not just call it "Request", and have an API to set the Accept:
header, so people can set it to "application/json"? You could even make
that the default.

Gerv

Received on Monday, 20 March 2006 02:31:12 UTC