Re: issue-225: AJAX and all that

On 9 May 2009, at 11:48, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> Looking at Yngve's message here:
>
>  http://www.w3.org/mid/op.us37ivemvqd7e2@killashandra.oslo.opera.com
>
> ... I wonder what the next step is.  I think we have the following  
> open points:
>
> 1. We need to add a MAY clause after the first paragraph of 5.4.1:
>
>> When TLS error conditions occur, user agents MAY choose to abort  
>> the connection without any further user interaction.  The  
>> guidelines in this section apply when user agents choose to cause a  
>> user interaction in the case of TLS error conditions.
>
>
> 2. We might want to make it more clear above that a user agent can  
> very well both follow the detailed guidance in 5.4.1 (e.g., for the  
> top-level frame), and choose to do the hard abort in some cases --  
> e.g., XMLHttpRequest, and that the latter is indeed the recommended  
> course of action.

Per ACTION-574, I propose to add the following text after the MAY  
clause given above:

> Note that user agents may combine both practices:  E.g., an  
> interactive approach may be chosen for the top-level frame of a Web  
> page, but a non-interactive approach may be chosen for inline  
> content.  It is expected that the XMLHttpRequest specification will  
> include a non-interactive approach as well.

Thoughts?

Received on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 11:51:02 UTC