Re: W3C's version of XMLHttpRequest should be abandoned

[Arthur Barstow]

On 8/6/15 8:07 AM, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl 
<mailto:ann...@annevk.nl>> wrote:

    According to Art the plan of record is to still pursue
    https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/raw-file/default/xhr-1/Overview.html 


And you correctly note

    but
    that was last updated more than a year ago. Last "formally" published
    a year and a half ago.


And that is mostly my fault. I intended to keep the W3C fork up to 
date (at least up to a point), but at some point I attempted to simply 
apply Git patches from Anne's edits to the WHATWG version, and it 
turned out Git had problems applying them automatically for whatever 
reason - apparently the versions were already so distinct that it 
wasn't possible. Since then I haven't found time for doing the manual 
cut-and-paste work required, and I therefore think it's probably 
better to follow Anne's advice and drop the W3C version entirely in 
favour of the WHATWG version. I still like the idea of having a 
"stable" spec documenting the interoperable behaviour of XHR by a 
given point in time - but I haven't been able to prioritise it and 
neither, apparently, have the other two editors.

Jungkee, Julian - we would like your input, in particular whether or not 
you can still commit to helping with the tasks required to move XHR 
Level 1 along the Recommendation track.

Others - if you can commit to helping with the main tasks (editing, 
testing, implementation, etc.) for XHR L1, please let us know.

-Thanks, AB