Re: [whatwg] onclose events for MessagePort from Aryeh Gregor on 2013-10-01 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from October 2013)

From: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 19:57:43 +0200
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Message-ID: <CAKA+AxnZt1eu4Jux5W_rBu=TE8AZs9NtZNCaTiaMwXy_PZxhVA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> Crashing is non-conforming.

<rules-lawyer href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html#conformance-requirements">

Terminating the process with SIGSEGV if a page exceeds an
implementation-limit on memory usage seems perfectly conforming to me.

</rules-lawyer>

Whether the case presents real-world difficulties for authors sounds
like the more interesting question here.

Received on Tuesday, 1 October 2013 17:58:30 UTC