On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, David Dailey wrote: > > > > "The XMLHttpRequest > > <http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#xmlhttprequest> object was > > initially defined as part of the WHATWG's HTML effort. (Long after > > Microsoft shipped an implementation.) " > > > > To me this is ambiguous: > > > > It could either mean > > > > 1. Long after Microsoft had shipped a related implementation, the > > XMLHttpRequest <http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#xmlhttprequest> > > object was defined as part of the WHATWG's HTML effort > > This is correct. > > I presume the author originally put the part rather informatively. I made it a single sentence as clarified here: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/raw-file/default/xhr-1/Overview.html#specification-history
Thanks, > > > 2. The XMLHttpRequest > > <http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#xmlhttprequest> object was > initially > > defined as part of the WHATWG's HTML effort. (Much later, Microsoft > shipped > > an implementation.) > > If this was the meaning, you would need a comma after "Long after". > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > > -- Jungkee Song
