On Mar 26, 2008, at 14:36, Travis Leithead
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I strongly object to the Web API working group adopting a proprietary
solution developed by one vendor with no external consultation,
when the
group has already spent several man-years' worth of time on a
technologically superior, safer, and more comprehensive solution
that has
as much implementation experience and significantly more authoring
experience, based on extending existing APIs instead of arbitarily
introducing new, incompatible APIs.
I don't see how introducing a new object is 'incompatible'. It seems
to have the same degree of 'compatibility' as introducing new APIs
on the XHR object.
The XHR2 proposal isn't a new API. It's the same API for same-domain
as cross-domain requests.
--
Ian Hickson
