Personally, I don't think it needs to be hidden behind a pref. Given that
FormData has been exposed on window, and the usage is mostly identical, I
suggest it be shipped directly.

- Xidorn

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:10 AM, <nsm.nik...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Summary: The FormData interface allows sending forms directly via XHR. It
> has previously been exposed on window. This intent is to expose it on
> workers and allow the same usage, i.e:
> - Creating FormData objects and adding string values or blobs to them
> - Sending FormData objects via a call to xhr.send().
>
> It is not possible to directly create a FormData from a HTML form element
> since form elements are not available on workers.
>
> The exposure on workers is a requirement for the Fetch API which we intend
> to ship this quarter. [1]
>
> Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739173
>
> Link to standard: https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#interface-formdata
>
> Platform coverage: All platforms
> Estimated or target release: Firefox 38
> Pref: I intend to hide this behind dom.fetch.enabled, which also controls
> the Fetch specification.
>
> [1]:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mozilla.dev.platform/intent$20fetch/mozilla.dev.platform/EWGghGeRAV0/2DWWR-KPa_IJ
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