- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:49:57 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Zhenbin Xu <Zhenbin.Xu@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Zhenbin Xu wrote: > > The issue of return "null or an exception" is simply a compromise here. > IE would throw an exception for state violations. Accessing responseXML > before open() is a state violation so it would trigger exception. Other > browsers may return null in such situation. In order to accommodate all > browsers, the spec would have to be rewritten in some way. Or the browsers could change, which is how we get interoperability. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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