RE: HTMLDocument interface for write() and writeln() needs an update

I would suggest allowing but ignoring the extra arguments.  If some
future version wants to support multiple arguments they can then they
have the option of creating something that is compatible.

Cheers,
Dave 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-html-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-html-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ian Hickson
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:46 PM
> To: Anne van Kesteren
> Cc: HTML WG
> Subject: Re: HTMLDocument interface for write() and writeln() 
> needs an update
> 
> 
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> > 
> > Now they both support multiple arguments the interface 
> should probably 
> > reflect that.
> 
> Actually I didn't really intend to allow multiple arguments, 
> I just had to define what happens when you get multiple 
> arguments because for these methods it's not the default 
> "wrong number of arguments" behaviour. Do we want to allow 
> it? That's a different question, IMHO...
> 
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