Re: Exception usage

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 2/3/2014 6:05 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> Over in DOM/IDL land we are still unsure around DOMException and
>> especially new names for it.
>
> Could you give us a pointer to the latest documentation or discussion on
> this?  Is there any consensus emerging around an alternative?

There's http://esdiscuss.org/topic/error-objects-in-w3c-apis and
there's a couple of bugs filed on IDL to import everything from DOM
regarding errors.


>> Given that the semantics of your exception perfectly match JavaScript's
>> built-in RangeError exception I strongly recommend using that over minting
>> something new.
>
> We're open to changing this, though we might want to double-check that there
> isn't too much existing content depending on the shipping implementation in
> IE11.  (We expect there is not.)
>
> However, we're not sure that RangeError is really a perfect match. Active
> pointerIds do not necessarily form a contiguous range.  For example, 5 and 7
> might be valid arguments to setPointerCapture, while 6 is invalid.  It seems
> surprising for setPointerCapture(6) to throw a RangeError in that case.  Is
> there any other existing DOM or ECMAScript error that is a better fit?

RangeError would still be correct in that case I think. See
http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-string.prototype.normalize
for precedent.


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Received on Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:11:54 UTC