- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:30:26 +0100
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, "Lachlan Hunt" <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: public-webapi@w3.org
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:28:07 +0100, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:18:34 +0100, Steven Pemberton > <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote: >> I would prefer "Implementations should ensure that they do not crash or >> behave erratically" if you see my point. >> >> But what I don't understand is why the spec thinks that a hostile >> NSResolver should be called out, or even what such a thing is. > > To ensure that naïve implementors don't overlook the potential issue > here. An implementation of NSResolver can be provided by the script > author as the specification explains and the script author can do all > kinds of weird things that don't match a conforming implementation of > NSResolver (such as mutating the DOM tree). Then I think that wording like that would make the issue clearer (though I think stupidity rather than hostility would be a more likely risk). Thanks. Steven
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