Bug 47802 – Rename X-Purpose to Purpose

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Page Loading

[Adam Barth]

Rename X-Purpose to Purpose

[Adam Barth]

Created attachment 71008 [details]
Patch

[Gavin Peters]

LGTM (although I'm not a committer).

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

From ChangeLog: "As requested by IETF HTTP WG".

[Adam Barth]

There's been some more traffic on the list.  They'd like to clarify that it's not an official request.  The ADs would like to depreciate using the X- dash prefix, so we should remove it here before we get stuck with it.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

It'll be awesome to have both "Purpose" and "X-Purpose" in WebKit-based browsers :-(

[Adam Barth]

(In reply to comment #5)
> It'll be awesome to have both "Purpose" and "X-Purpose" in WebKit-based browsers :-(

Can we drop the X- from the Safari feature?

[David Levin]

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > It'll be awesome to have both "Purpose" and "X-Purpose" in WebKit-based browsers :-(
> 
> Can we drop the X- from the Safari feature?

(I'm just going through the review queue and trying to clear things out.)

This looks like a simple patch meant to better work with standards, so it seems like an ok candidate to r+.

Alexey, do you object to it?

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I don't know if we can drop X- in Safari.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Comment on attachment 71008 [details]
Patch

Seems fine.  You may need to add an #ifdef for Apple if we can't drop X.  I don't sit on the IETF WG, but the interwebs seem to support dropping X-: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-saintandre-xdash-considered-harmful-00

You should mention http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-saintandre-xdash-considered-harmful-00 in your ChangeLog?

[Adam Barth]

Committed r71494: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/71494>