Re: [whatwg] data URLs and XMLHttpRequest

2012-09-07 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: I ended up reverting that text, it didn't really work. Is there anything else you need for XHR instead? I guess I will just special case data URLs in the same way. Seems somewhat ugly, but I do not really have a better alternative

Re: [whatwg] data URLs and XMLHttpRequest

2012-09-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Anne van Kesteren wrote: I think we should expand http://html5.org/r/7180 with a mention of XMLHttpRequest's open() method. XMLHttpRequest already has a section detailing how data URLs behave in an HTTP context, but they are not yet explicitly allowed. Allowing them in

[whatwg] data URLs and XMLHttpRequest

2012-07-18 Thread Anne van Kesteren
I think we should expand http://html5.org/r/7180 with a mention of XMLHttpRequest's open() method. XMLHttpRequest already has a section detailing how data URLs behave in an HTTP context, but they are not yet explicitly allowed. Allowing them in the same way as workers seems like a good idea to me.