ISSUE-41 - Public View

Does XMLHttpRequest have constants for readyState? No.

State:

CLOSED

Product:

XMLHttpRequest

Raised by:

Anne van Kesteren

Opened on:

2006-03-17

Description:

Robin revised the specification mostly for IDL markup and made the different
states of readyState constants. However, running:

 <script>
  var r = new XMLHttpRequest;
  alert(r.OPEN_STATE)
 </script>

... in Opera and Firefox returns undefined. I'm removing the constants because
of this. This issue is to make sure everyone is aware of that change. (Unless
someone can point out that Internet Explorer does do constants, but given MSDN
that seems unlikely...)

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Related emails:

1. ISSUE-41: Does XMLHttpRequest have constants for readyState? No. (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2006-03-17)
2. Re: ISSUE-41: Does XMLHttpRequest have constants for readyState? No. (from robin.berjon@expway.fr on 2006-03-17)
3. Re: ISSUE-41: Does XMLHttpRequest have constants for readyState? No. (from derhoermi@gmx.net on 2006-03-17)
4. Re: ISSUE-41: Does XMLHttpRequest have constants for readyState? No. (from robin.berjon@expway.fr on 2006-03-17)
5. Re: ISSUE-41: Does XMLHttpRequest have constants for readyState? No. (from annevk@opera.com on 2006-03-17)

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