Doug Schepers wrote:
Moreover, this is, in fact, what this WG was chartered to do regarding XHR:
"This deliverable should begin by documenting the existing
XMLHttpRequest interface."
The question becomes, is IE's implementation to be considered canonical,
or is it up to interpretation vis a vis later implementations (FF,
Opera, Safari, et al)?
I remember that we started the XHR spec with this goal. However it
pretty quickly became clear that we couldn't archive a useful subset of
functionality that was compatible between all existing implementations.
I think in all cases we've tried to be as compatible with
implementations as we could, but in cases where we couldn't we've had to
compromise.
Pursuant to that, is there a way to document the existing behavior such
that it does not make existing implementation retroactively
"non-conforming"? Or that does not affect existing content? I don't
know whether or not the existing specification meets these criteria, but
I think that would be the best path forward.
I don't think doing that would be very useful as a spec. It would
basically just be a brief tutorial of the various functions and their
arguments. Something that there are plenty of on the web already.
/ Jonas
