On 9/28/10 10:32 AM, Chris Marrin wrote:
I'd hate the idea of another flag in XHR. Why not just keep the raw bits and then convert when responseText is called? The only disadvantage of this is when the author makes multiple calls to responseText and I would not think that is a very common use case.
It's actually reasonably common; Gecko had some performance bugs filed on us until we started caching the responseText (before that we did exactly what you just suggested).
Oh, and some sites poll responseText from progress events for reasons I can't fathom.
-Boris
