Well at least it works in Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome. With that broad support, I imagine that removing this defacto feature in XHR L2 would cause a lot of heartburn for developers who probably rely upon it today.
Thanks, Bryan Sullivan | AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Anne van Kesteren [mailto:ann...@opera.com] Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 2:49 PM To: Jonas Sicking; SULLIVAN, BRYAN L (ATTCINW) Cc: WebApps WG Subject: Re: [XHR] Status Update On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:37:25 +0200, SULLIVAN, BRYAN L (ATTCINW) <bs3...@att.com> wrote: > Are you saying that it should not be possible now (with XHR L1) to > receive HTML files via XHR ("Receiving HTML documents would indeed be a > newish feature ") ? > > This does actually work for me in XHR L1, so I'm unclear about what you > mean below. It is not supported by the specification as it stands today, no, and never was, and is not supported by all implementations. However, I think we should add it, as I explained in my previous email. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/