Thanks Thomas. I'll see if I can find some time to contribute, I'll dig some more.
On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 1:27:51 AM UTC-7, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > > On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 5:35:02 AM UTC+2, Brandon Donnelson wrote: >> >> Does anybody know if XMLHttpRequest2 is in or slated for 2.5? > > > It depends what you mean by XMLHttpRequest2. responseType is here (was in > RC1 already but was broken), with the ability to get the response as an > ArrayBuffer, but that's it: no progress events, no send() overload for > typed arrays, no withCredentials, etc. That being said, apart from progress > events, everything can be accomplished really easily with JSNI (progress > events too, we're using them in a project at work when uploading files). > I think the main problem is to provide a way to detect which features are > available; it's easy for responseType='arraybuffer' because you can just > test whether typed arrays are supported (all browsers supported by GWT > implement either both or none), it's a bit less straightforward for other > features. > For those in a controlled environment (our app only supports Firefox, so > we didn't bother checking for feature availability), it's best to resort to > JSNI: if you know what you're doing, well, do it, you know what you're > doing anyway. > > However, as always: patches welcome! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/NsvrQBcy1gUJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
