>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.
