Re: calling abort method on XMLHttpRequest instance fires onreadystatechange with readyState 4

Martijn wrote:
> That code was added with bug 258768.

Actually, no.  Bug 258768 touched the code, but didn't add it.  The code was 
added in bug 218236.  See in particular 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218236#c11 for comparisons to IE 
6.0 behavior.  Note the inconsistency in IE behavior depending on the value of 
readyState when abort() is called (1 and 2 give different behavior).

We could probably emulate this inconsistent behavior....

Has someone raised this with the web apis WG, since they're currently working on 
specifying XMLHttpRequest?

-Boris