XMLHttpRequestStatus, Plans and Issues

Web Apps F2F at San Jose25th of April, 2013

Status

TR Publication6 Dec, 2012 [1]

Testhg: submissions/{Microsoft (28) [2], Ms2ger (3) [3], Opera (92) [4]}

Github: mirror at w3-test.org [5]

WHATWG [6]14 commits (22 Nov, 2012 ~ 23 Apr, 2013)

Issues[7]13 bugs in NEW status

Plan

XHR.REC-track (Baseline version)Aim: Achieve REC within 2013 (Single FPWD/LC on June/July time frame)To specify features that are widely implemented and deployed today

To finalize the IP commitments by WebApps' members

Title: XMLHttpRequest Level 1

Out of scope: CORS, data: URL, HTTP auth, overrideMimeType?, Progress Events?

XHR.Bleeding-edgeAim: Validate full scope and achieve REC ASAP (before TPAC 2014?)Resolve controversial issues

Focus on testing activities to expedite interop

Title: XMLHttpRequest Level 2

Scope: Current features + Stream response type

Issues

Major issuesoverrideMimeType behavior

HTTP Authentication

Stream data type and incremental response

(For all the filed bugs see [7])

** Also, we need to expedite interop based on testing!

Reference

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20121206/[2] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webapps/file/3e8f9a520395/XMLHttpRequest/tests/submissions/Microsoft[3] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webapps/file/3e8f9a520395/XMLHttpRequest/tests/submissions/Ms2ger[4] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webapps/file/3e8f9a520395/XMLHttpRequest/tests/submissions/Opera[5] http://w3c-test.org/web-platform-tests/master/XMLHttpRequest/[6] https://github.com/whatwg/xhr/commits/master[7] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&component=XHR