On 12/12/2011 03:12 PM, Jarred Nicholls wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:44:58 +0100, Jarred Nicholls
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I understand that's how you spec'ed it, but it's not how it's
implemented
in IE nor WebKit for legacy purposes - which is what I meant in
the above
statement.
What do you mean legacy purposes? responseType is a new feature. And
we added it in this way in part because of feedback from the WebKit
community that did not want to keep the raw data around.
I wasn't talking about responseType, I was referring to the pair of
responseText and responseXML being accessible together since the dawn of
time.
In case responseType is not set. If responseType is set, implementations
can optimize certain things.
I don't know why WebKit and IE didn't take the opportunity to use
responseType
responseType is a new thing. Gecko hasn't changed behavior in case
responseType is not set.
and kill that behavior; don't ask me, I wasn't responsible
for it ;)
In the thread where we discussed adding it the person working on it
for WebKit did seem to plan on implementing it per the specification:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/__Public/public-webapps/__2010OctDec/thread.html#msg799
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010OctDec/thread.html#msg799>
Clearly not - shame, because now I'm trying to clean up the mess.
In WebKit and IE <=9, a responseType of "", "text",
or "document" means access to both responseXML and responseText.
I don't
know what IE10's behavior is yet.
IE8 could not have supported this feature and for IE9 I could not
find any documentation. Are you sure they implemented it?
I'm not positive if they did to be honest - I haven't found it
documented anywhere.
Given that Gecko does the right thing and Opera will too (next major
release I believe) I do not really see any reason to change the
specification.
I started an initiative to bring XHR in WebKit up-to-spec (see
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54162) and got a lot of push
back. All I'm asking is that if I run into push back again, that I can
send them your way ;)
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Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
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