- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 05:00:41 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Simon Pieters wrote: > > (This is part of my detailed review of the Document Object Model section.) > > The spec says about setting a reflecting attribute of type HTMLElement (or an > descendant thereof): > > On setting, if the given element has an id attribute, then the content > attribute must be set to the value of that id attribute. Otherwise, the > DOM attribute must be set to the empty string. > > Shouldn't it raise an exception if the value isn't type-compatible with the > DOM attribute? (e.g., .contextMenu would only accept HTMLMenuElement.) Yes, but presumably this happens at a higher layer (e.g. the DOM Bindings for ES4 specification). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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