ISSUE-72 - Public View

should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget?

State:

CLOSED

Product:

XMLHttpRequest

Raised by:

Anne van Kesteren

Opened on:

2006-04-06

Description:

I know we agreed to not do this for version 1.0 during our F2F (Oslo, 2006), but
I'd like to revisit it given that there's at least one implementation which is
doing this and it makes a lot more sense for other languages besides ECMAScript.
Did I mention it just makes a lot of sense?

(Another consequence of this will be that onreadystatechange becomes an
EventListener instead of a Function.)

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Related emails:

1. ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2006-04-06)
2. ISSUE-73: Are we going to support non-ECMAScript languages? (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2006-04-06)
3. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from gormer@opera.com on 2006-04-06)
4. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from ian@hixie.ch on 2006-04-06)
5. Re: ISSUE-73: Are we going to support non-ECMAScript languages? (from ian@hixie.ch on 2006-04-06)
6. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from jonas@sicking.cc on 2006-04-07)
7. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from annevk@opera.com on 2006-04-08)
8. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from jonas@sicking.cc on 2006-04-08)
9. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from jim@jibbering.com on 2006-04-08)
10. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from jonas@sicking.cc on 2006-04-08)
11. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from annevk@opera.com on 2006-04-09)
12. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from robin.berjon@expway.fr on 2006-04-09)
13. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from jonas@sicking.cc on 2006-04-09)
14. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from robin.berjon@expway.fr on 2006-04-09)
15. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from ian@hixie.ch on 2006-04-09)
16. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from jim@jibbering.com on 2006-04-09)
17. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from jonas@sicking.cc on 2006-04-09)
18. Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget? (from jonas@sicking.cc on 2006-04-09)
19. Open issues for XMLHttpRequest (from annevk@opera.com on 2006-05-01)

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