Re: XHR LC comments

2008-05-17 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On May 17, 2008, at 1:03 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: Sunava Dutta wrote: ... At this point, I'm not sure why we're bothering with XHR1 at all. It is *not* what the current implementations do anyway. [Sunava Dutta] I'm sorry, this statement is concerning and I'd like to understand it

Re: XHR LC comment: Accept header went from MUST NOT to SHOULD

2008-05-17 Thread Julian Reschke
Jonas Sicking wrote: ... If */* is semantically the same as not sending the header at all, and the former works with more servers, I would prefer that we use the former. ... I would prefer not to silently change what the client requested. If a server can't cope with it (evidence, please!),

Re: XHR LC comments

2008-05-17 Thread Julian Reschke
Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Sat, 17 May 2008 11:56:45 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what IMHO happens all over again is that strange choices in the design are defended with the statement this is what the vendors do, or want to do, and when we check it, that turns out to

Re: XHR LC comments

2008-05-17 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sat, 17 May 2008 14:23:24 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Sat, 17 May 2008 11:56:45 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what IMHO happens all over again is that strange choices in the design are defended with the statement this

Re: XHR LC comments

2008-05-17 Thread Julian Reschke
Julian Reschke wrote: ... Data loss is not a safe choice, it's a bad choice. Do you have any evidence of deployed code that would break if this would throw? ... I just tried with FF3 and IE7. Using a non-ns-wellformed document: - FF3: happily sends it - IE7: couldn't figure out how to

Re: XHR LC comments

2008-05-17 Thread Julian Reschke
Julian Reschke wrote: Boris Zbarsky wrote: Julian Reschke wrote: Using a non-ns-wellformed document: - FF3: happily sends it Out of curiosity, what did this document look like? What got sent? I removed the document element and added a comment node, so it looked like: !-- foo --