Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-14 Thread Jonas Sicking
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On May 14, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: * Anne van Kesteren wrote: It was added for compatibility with WebKit. I don't really feel strongly about it, ... Excellent, I then look forward to a proposal that Jonas and I do not regard as inappropriate. I do

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > The question we should be examining is whether [text/xsl] is actually > used in practice. If it is, then the right course of action is to get it > registered with the IETF (and presumably marked deprecated). If it > isn't, then we can safely req

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-14 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >I don't personally feel strongly about this particular issue (I don't >think it is common for sites to send text/xsl as a MIME type on the >wire), but since when is the fact that someone "regard[s] [it] as >inappropriate" a valid reason to change something? Should

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/14/07, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Defining particular behavior when a type is seen is not the same as standardizing it, in my opinion. Disagree, since MIME types are used to route messages to code with particular behaviors. However, I personally don't feel too strongly

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-14 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On May 14, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/14/07, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally I don't think lack of registration is a particularly strong reason not to define handling for a particular MIME type. At the very least, the W3C/IETF liasons should discuss

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/14/07, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally I don't think lack of registration is a particularly strong reason not to define handling for a particular MIME type. At the very least, the W3C/IETF liasons should discuss this. It is exceedingly bad manners to squat a on pa

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-14 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On May 14, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: * Anne van Kesteren wrote: It was added for compatibility with WebKit. I don't really feel strongly about it, ... Excellent, I then look forward to a proposal that Jonas and I do not regard as inappropriate. I don't personally feel s

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-14 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Anne van Kesteren wrote: >It was added for compatibility with WebKit. I don't really feel strongly >about it, ... Excellent, I then look forward to a proposal that Jonas and I do not regard as inappropriate. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-14 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 10 May 2007 17:21:30 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Anne van Kesteren wrote: If one UA treats Content-Type:text/foobar as XML and another UA does not and a site starts relying on text/foobar being treated as XML we have a problem. We have very many problems of

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-14 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, 09 May 2007 00:49:56 +0200, Jonas Sicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anne: was there a reason 'text/xsl' was included other than "IE does it"? Or is it known to actually break sites? A Contributor from WebKit implementing XMLHttpRequest requested it to be included for compatibility

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-11 Thread Jonas Sicking
Boris Zbarsky wrote: Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/axmlb-test.html alerts FAIL in browsers treating axmlb/test as XML type, which my versions of Firefox do; so it does seeem true to me. `text/rdf` btw, does not seem to be supported as XML type for XHR purposes in Fire

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-10 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/axmlb-test.html alerts FAIL in browsers treating axmlb/test as XML type, which my versions of Firefox do; so it does seeem true to me. `text/rdf` btw, does not seem to be supported as XML type for XHR purposes in Firefox. That's correct.

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-10 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Jonas Sicking wrote: >Alexey Proskuryakov wrote: >> 2) Firefox 2 recognizes anything with "xml" in it (e.g. "fooxml/bar"). > >I really doubt that is the case. Could you provide a testcase showing >this to be true? http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/axmlb-test.html alerts FAIL in browsers treating

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-10 Thread Jonas Sicking
Alexey Proskuryakov wrote: 2) Firefox 2 recognizes anything with "xml" in it (e.g. "fooxml/bar"). I really doubt that is the case. Could you provide a testcase showing this to be true? / Jonas

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-10 Thread Alexey Proskuryakov
Hi! * Bjoern Hoehrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Thu, 10 May 2007 17:21:30 +0200]: I was unable, by the way, to get any browser but Opera to recognize the type text/xsl as XML MIME type; Firefox from 1.5 to Minefield does not seem to recognize it, and neither do IE6 and IE7 (on different vers

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-10 Thread Chris Lilley
On Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 7:05:30 AM, Björn wrote: BH> * Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >>I'm also not sure of the benefit of letting the UA treat arbitrary >>other types as XML besides those listed. Modern XML MIME types should >>all be following the +xml convention. BH> It is false to assert m

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-10 Thread Chris Lilley
On Thursday, May 10, 2007, 2:07:48 PM, Anne wrote: AvK> On Wed, 09 May 2007 07:18:32 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AvK> wrote: >>> The reason is that the draft needs to be reasonably compatible with >>> existing content such that it can be implemented without breaking >>> content.

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-10 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Anne van Kesteren wrote: >If one UA treats Content-Type:text/foobar as XML and another UA does not >and a site starts relying on text/foobar being treated as XML we have a >problem. We have very many problems of this nature right now. If I use XML 1.1 my site won't work in Firefox, if I use

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-10 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, 09 May 2007 07:18:32 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The reason is that the draft needs to be reasonably compatible with existing content such that it can be implemented without breaking content. If you think my suggestion would break existing content, it would b

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-08 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Anne van Kesteren wrote: >I did take your suggestion. Not having Content-Type specified now gives >you responseXML as well. I assumed you would read the diffs you receive >through e-mail. From now on I'll try to be more elaborate. Thanks. >The reason is that the draft needs to be reasonabl

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-08 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >I'm also not sure of the benefit of letting the UA treat arbitrary >other types as XML besides those listed. Modern XML MIME types should >all be following the +xml convention. And clearly for >interoperability we want it to be the case that the UA MUST NOT treat

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-08 Thread Jonas Sicking
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: If we are making the list absolute, I feel weird about including things like 'text/xsl' and 'text/rdf' as neither of them are real mimetypes. Is there really a lot that would break if 'text/xsl' was not included? No clue. I don't think it's bad to make requirements f

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-08 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On May 8, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On May 8, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: [1] not sure if it should be a MUST or SHOULD requirement. It should be a MUST because: - We want test cases to cover it. - There's no sensible reason to let a UA to n

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-08 Thread Jonas Sicking
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On May 8, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: * text/xsl has been added as a MIME type that causes responseXML to return a Document object (if the resource can indeed be parsed according to the XML specfications.) Again, for com

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-08 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On May 8, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: * text/xsl has been added as a MIME type that causes responseXML to return a Document object (if the resource can indeed be parsed according to the XML specfications.) Again, for compatibility reasons. Ther

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-08 Thread Jonas Sicking
Anne van Kesteren wrote: * text/xsl has been added as a MIME type that causes responseXML to return a Document object (if the resource can indeed be parsed according to the XML specfications.) Again, for compatibility reasons. There is no need for the draft to encourage use of unregi

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-08 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 08 May 2007 12:58:12 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fixed. It would be helpful if you could say what changes you have made, rather than relying on reviewers to somehow figure this out for themselves. I take it you did not use my suggestion, but I can live with the

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-08 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> I find some of these changes somewhat odd. For example, if there is no >> Content-Type header, the encoding is detected as if the resource was a >> application/xml resource, but .responseXML is populated as if the re- >> source was non-XML (it's set to null). It would

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-08 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 08 May 2007 11:59:42 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Anne van Kesteren wrote: * For compatibility reasons the character encoding detection for decoding responseText has been changed. I find some of these changes somewhat odd. For example, if there is no Cont

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-08 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Anne van Kesteren wrote: > * For compatibility reasons the character encoding detection >for decoding responseText has been changed. I find some of these changes somewhat odd. For example, if there is no Content-Type header, the encoding is detected as if the resource was a application/xml

[XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-07 Thread Anne van Kesteren
Hi, The latest editor's draft of the XMLHttpRequest can be found here: http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/Overview.html?content-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8 In addition there's also a disposition of comments document for the first Last Call: http://dev