[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 14392] Add support for multipart/x-mixed-replace to XMLHttpRequest

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14392





------- Comment #4 from crodster2k at yahoo.com  2007-06-26 08:17 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> Confirmed.
> 
> Please note that support for multipart/x-mixed-replace is not even considered
> for inclusion in future versions of XMLHttpRequest spec yet, as seen in the
> current draft of the spec, <http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#notcovered>.
> We may want to discuss its possible standardization first.
> 

Standardization happens via 2 routes.  Route 1, everyone gets in a room and
creates a spec with little or no real world experience.  These specs sound
great on paper, but usually have a great deal of problems when people try to
implement them.

Route 2, someone comes up with an innovative idea and everyone says "Wow,
that's cool".  They then copy that idea as closely as possible.  Everyone now
supports that "defacto" standard and eventually it is documented as "the
standard" by some committee.  Route 2 usually results in better software and
more rapid innovation.

This is particularly relevant to XmlHttpRequest. It was originally an IE only
extension and the rest of the browser world said "Wow, that's cool".  Soon it
showed up in all the other browsers (without the need for ActiveX on which IE's
XmlHttpRequest is based).  

It might be worthwhile to implement support for multipart/x-mixed-replace in
WebKit in a manner compatible with Firefox's and then push for that to become
the standard with the appropriate group.


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