Re: [whatwg] Need to define same-origin policy for WebIDL operations/getters/setters

On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, James Graham wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> > On 1/9/13 4:12 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
> > > >    window.addEventListener.call(otherWindow, "click", function() 
> > > > {});
> > > 
> > > This example does not appear to throw an exception in Chrome.  It 
> > > appears to just returns undefined without doing anything (except 
> > > logging a security error to the debug console).
> > 
> > Hmm.  I may be able to convince that turning security errors like this 
> > into silent no-ops returning undefined is ok, but throwing an 
> > exception seems like a much better idea to me if you're going to 
> > completely not do what you were asked to do...  The other option 
> > introduces hard-to-debug bugs.
> 
> FWIW I have run into this behaviour in WebKit in the context of using 
> the platform, and I considered it very user-hostile.

Yeah, we should throw SecurityError exception in these cases IMHO.

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