reponseText now reads:
If the <code><term>readyState</term></code> attribute has a value
other than 3 (Receiving) or 4 (Loaded), it MUST be the empty string.
Otherwise, it MUST be the fragment of the entity body received so
far (when <code>readyState</code> is 3 (Receiving)) or the entity
body when <code>readyState</code> is 4 (Loaded)), interpreted as a
stream of characters.
If the response includes a <code>Content-Type</code> understood by
the UA, with the exception that the rule in the final paragraph of
section 3.7.1 of [RFC2616], and the rules in section 4.1.2 of
[RFC2046] MUST be treated as if they specified the default character
encoding as being UTF-8. Invalid bytes MUST be converted to U+FFFD
REPLACEMENT CHARACTER. If the UA can't derive a character stream in
accord with the media type specification, <code>reponseText</code>
MUST be <code>null</code>.
This seems a lot better than how
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060405/#dfn-responsetext
reads at the moment, but I've the feeling I should add some more
references. Perhaps [RFC2616] after the first paragraph for entity body
etc.?
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
