Re: issue-225: AJAX and all that

On 20 May 2009, at 13:50, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> On 9 May 2009, at 11:48, Thomas Roessler wrote:
>
>> Looking at Yngve's message here:
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/mid/op.us37ivemvqd7e2@killashandra.oslo.opera.com
>>
>> ... I wonder what the next step is.  I think we have the following  
>> open points:
>>
>> 1. We need to add a MAY clause after the first paragraph of 5.4.1:
>>
>>> When TLS error conditions occur, user agents MAY choose to abort  
>>> the connection without any further user interaction.  The  
>>> guidelines in this section apply when user agents choose to cause  
>>> a user interaction in the case of TLS error conditions.
>>
>>
>> 2. We might want to make it more clear above that a user agent can  
>> very well both follow the detailed guidance in 5.4.1 (e.g., for the  
>> top-level frame), and choose to do the hard abort in some cases --  
>> e.g., XMLHttpRequest, and that the latter is indeed the recommended  
>> course of action.
>
> Per ACTION-574, I propose to add the following text after the MAY  
> clause given above:

For tracker's benefit, that was ACTION-594, not ACTION-574.

>> Note that user agents may combine both practices:  E.g., an  
>> interactive approach may be chosen for the top-level frame of a Web  
>> page, but a non-interactive approach may be chosen for inline  
>> content.  It is expected that the XMLHttpRequest specification will  
>> include a non-interactive approach as well.
>
> Thoughts?
>

Received on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 11:51:57 UTC