RE: <New: Tracking Issues in XHR that we raised>RE: <Was: Further LC Followup from IE> RE: Potential bugs identified in XHR LC Test Suite

Then I definitely would recommend an Exception.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Hickson [mailto:ian@hixie.ch]
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:05 PM
> To: Zhenbin Xu
> Cc: Jonas Sicking; Sunava Dutta; public-webapps@w3.org; IE8 Core AJAX
> SWAT Team
> Subject: RE: <New: Tracking Issues in XHR that we raised>RE: <Was:
> Further LC Followup from IE> RE: Potential bugs identified in XHR LC
> Test Suite
>
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Zhenbin Xu wrote:
> >
> > I once again propose the spec simply state "null or exception" with
> > sufficient explanations.
>
> I don't really mind if it is null or an exception, but simply allowing
> both isn't going to get us interoperability, so I'm against that. The
> whole point of a spec is to avoid cases where different browsers do
> different things like this.
>
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