[webkit-dev] Do we need a "webkitBackground" property for XMLHttpRequest?

[Joe Mason]

> From: webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org 
> [webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org] on behalf of Adam Barth 
> [abarth at webkit.org]
> 
> > Do you know why the chromium has not cancel auth dialog for XHR? Is this
> > the main reason?
> 
> The network stack folks did a round of removing auth dialogs for
> subresources a while back.  I'm not sure why they didn't remove the
> dialog from XHR.  It's possible they ran into compat trouble or that
> it was an oversight.

There's an open Chromium issue on the subject at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31582, BTW.  Although now I look at it the suggestion to clone mozBackgroundRequest looks to have come from a random person who reported the bug, and not an actual Chromium dev.

Joe
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