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

From: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:37:17 -0700
Message-ID: <BEBB9CBE66B372469E93FFDE3EDC493EF0741E@repbex01.amer.bea.com>
To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>

I meant that we should make it explicit that multiple arguments are
allowed and the extra ones are ignored in this version.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Hickson [mailto:ian@hixie.ch] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:29 PM
> To: David Orchard
> Cc: Anne van Kesteren; HTML WG
> Subject: RE: HTMLDocument interface for write() and writeln() 
> needs an update
> 
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, David Orchard wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I'm confused. We can't ignore multiple arguments, that's the 
> whole point. 
> The issue is just about whether we should legitimise it from 
> an author point of view.
> 
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