Re: Setting IDL attributes that map enumerated content attributes from Boris Zbarsky on 2010-03-11 (public-html@w3.org from March 2010)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:15:49 -0500
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4B991735.8050100@mit.edu>

On 3/11/10 11:11 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> Wouldn't the "throw an error" bit break things that set<input>s to
> unknown @types?

That is precisely my concern, yes.  Note that "unknown" would ipso facto 
include types that are in the spec but not yet implemented in the 
browser (e.g. the various web forms types if the brower doesn't support 
them yet).

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 11 March 2010 16:16:24 UTC