On 11/2/10 4:04 PM, David Flanagan wrote:
Boris (Mozilla) worries that creating a new mode in which responseText is unavailable will break jQuery applications.
And various others where the consumer of the data and the XHR creator are not the same entity. jQuery is just an obvious example that we all know about, is public, and clearly illustrates the pattern....
It occurs to me now, however, that the way to avoid breaking jQuery is to make responseType a constructor argument instead of a property to be set before send(). If I recall correctly, jQuery always creates its own XHR object, so if responseType is only settable at creation time, then the situation Boris fears won't arise. At least not with that library.
That last sentence is key there... ;) -Boris
