On Wednesday, November 9, 2011, Andrew Oakley <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems fairly common to call overrideMimeType before open(), but > should throw an InvalidStateError according to current XHR2 editors draft. > > If you search (Google) for overrideMimeType a significant number of > first page results show calling of overrideMimeType before the open > call, so I imagine this will become increasingly common as people > copy+paste. > > I don't think this is a particularly problematic thing to allow so can > we please update the spec to allow this?
And for the sake of consistency and ease of use, we should allow setting .responseType at that time too. / Jonas
