389626 - Rename XMLHttpRequest.sendAsBinary to XMLHttpRequest.mozSendAsBinary

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[Takeshi Kurosawa :takenspc]

Attachment: Patch

We should rename |XMLHttpRequest.sendAsBinary()| to |XMLHttpRequest.mozSendAsBinary()| because it's not a part of the XMLHttpReqeust specification.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20070618/

Comment 1

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Comment on attachment 273906 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch

Prefixing functions with 'moz' is something we've never done. I'd rather that this was raised with the work group and tried to standardize instead. This is something that would be great to get help with.

Comment 2

[Anne (:annevk)]

Please rename it. That at least makes it more clear to developers that this is a Mozilla-only extension. The proposal for XHR2 is .send(in ByteArray data) btw.

Comment 3

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

I still contend that this is something that no vendor has ever done. The suggested name isn't going to collide with this one, but depends on ES4 features. If other browsers want to support this functionality, but does not yet have an ES4 implementation, they'll likely want to add a function like ours. If we prefix it with 'moz' no other vendor will want to choose the same name and so it'll just make it harder for web authors.

So I'm still going to argue that this is not something we want to do.