ISSUE-121 - Public View

Should we note version of XHR Object

State:
OPEN
Product:
XMLHttpRequest
Raised by:
Sunava Dutta
Opened on:
2007-10-28
Description:
In http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2007Sep/0043.html Sunava 
writes

*        The current draft introduces new entities to the object. We're ok with 
creating a new object (or versioned XHR object) in order to ensure that the 
standards can advance. However, a vast majority of developers will not be able 
to reliably use this as the millions of pages build around current IE XHR will 
not support them. This consequently will be a adoption blocker for the standard.

o   Ensure all new entities like constants, flags etc are versioned or in a new 
object.

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Related emails:
  1. ISSUE-121: Should we note version of XHR Object (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2007-10-28)
  2. Re: ISSUE-120: Make XHR spec less detailed/granular (from annevk@opera.com on 2007-10-28)

Related notes:

2007-10-28: Jon Ferraiolo seems to support the idea in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ public-webapi/2007Sep/0044.html and the thread following, noting that XHR is generally used with wrapper functions already and asking that any versioning mechanism support this usage