Hi,
The Web API WG resolved yesterday to publish a Last Call Working Draft of
The XMLHttpRequest Object specification. Thanks to the webmasters at the
W3C it was published earlier today. Last Call comments can be made until 2
June 2008. (Please don't comment about the "befor" typo there. My mistake.)
The draft is located here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20080415/
This is a rough list of the changes since the last published draft:
* Removed dependency on DOM Level 3 Events
* Removed dependency on Window Object 1.0
(we already depended on HTML 5 so we could use that instead)
* Clearly marked which HTTP methods are to raise SECURITY_ERR
* Mention HttpOnly in the security section
* Accept-Language is set conditionally
* Requests using a GET method will not have an entity body
* responseText can no longer return null
* responseText and responseXML no longer throw
* Headers starting with Sec- will raise
* getResponseHeader() will return null for invalid headers
* getAllResponseHeaderS() returns empty string in case of failure
A more detailed log of these changes, including links to the actual text
changes, is available from dev.w3.org, here:
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/Overview.html
Happy times reviewing!
Kind regards,
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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
