Re: [XMLHttpRequest-tests] Test should be for compliance with actual spec (#974)

Well, I'm not surprised you're confused..
The messy state we're in right now has a history more or less like this: some discussion on mailing lists led to (I  believed) a conclusion to use TypeError and Anne reported bug 23346 on changing it. We changed the test accordingly, Jungkee implemented the change in the W3C version, and sent Anne a pull req for the spec to help close bug 23346 (https://github.com/whatwg/xhr/pull/12). Anne changes his mind, wontfixes the bug and rejects the pull request. (To "consolidate" exception handling and "avoid churn".)

So, we found this a bit confusing since he had been arguing for the change and apparently still thinks implementations should not eventually be required to throw SyntaxErrors here, and we haven't bitten the bullet and re-aligned with his version yet. Hence we're in this state with two (currently) conflicting specs and a test that can't quite make its mind up..

View on GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/pull/974#issuecomment-42940159

Received on Tuesday, 13 May 2014 10:40:36 UTC