On 09.08.2010 22:25, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:54:48 +0200, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote:
Some of these bugs are feature enhancements. Such as adding support
for sending and receiving text/html documents. In the interest of
getting us to rec as quickly as possible I suggest that these features
are added to XHR L2 instead.
Actually, by virtue of following the Document.innerHTML algorithm from
HTML5 sending HTML documents is already covered for in XMLHttpRequest.
It is just that the media type (as the bug indicates) is always set to
application/xml rather than text/html for HTML documents.
Receiving HTML documents would indeed be a newish feature, except that
you already need to follow HTML5 rules to discover the character
encoding for responseText, etc. so adding this did not seem like a big
burden on implementations on top of which it makes sense that if you can
send them (which was already possible) you can also receive them.
...
I sure hope nobody follows HTML5 for the encoding detection :-). See
<http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9628>, raised over three
months ago.
Best regards, Julian
