On Oct 25, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Jeremy Orlow wrote: > ...3. Get rid of the "asBlob" attribute and add a new "responseType" > attribute which could be: > "Text" <--- this is the default > "XML" > "Bytes" > ... other types yet to be defined > > I'm not sure I follow this proposal. > > The parameter would be added to .open() (after username and password). This > means you'd have to pass in undefined for both in most uses. And it has the > disadvantage you mentioned for #2.
It could be done in a separate call (setResponseType(in DOMString type)), to avoid that. ----- ~Chris cmar...@apple.com