On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:07:37 +0200, Greg Wilkins <gregw at webtide.com> wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Greg Wilkins wrote: >>>> is there any reason from a browser prospective to avoid the inclusion >>>> of META-DATA in this kind of protocol? >>> [...] >>> >>> I'm not sure if there are other objections - Ian? >> >> It would be best to ask browser vendors directly, but off-hand I can't >> think of any reasons other than the necessary added complexity (parsing >> the metadata, handling exposing it to scripts, defining all the error >> handling to ensure bogus servers are handled predictably, etc). > > Note that I think the discussion of what should be exposed/changed in > the API is a different one to the transport protocol. The transport protocol still needs to be implemented so the added complexity of BWTP over WS does not seem that great in that respect. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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