Re: [Proposal] Empowering the Widget to ask fro "mode change" in A&E

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:21:15 +0200, Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com> wrote:

>> In that case, it is not a request, so widget.changeMode(<mode name>)  
>> would be more appropriate, where a user agent MAY choose to not honor  
>> the request.
>>
>
> If it doesn't, it would throw an exception. Right?

I would much prefer that it didn't, were we to specify this, as it would be consistent with other APIs for managing windows and sizes:  window.open() never throws, neither does resizeTo|resizeBy|moveTo|moveBy

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Arve Bersvendsen

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