- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:35:44 +0200
- To: "Zhenbin Xu" <Zhenbin.Xu@microsoft.com>, "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: "Sunava Dutta" <sunavad@windows.microsoft.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>, "IE8 Core AJAX SWAT Team" <ieajax@microsoft.com>
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:47:03 +0200, Zhenbin Xu <Zhenbin.Xu@microsoft.com> wrote: >> So if we can change .responseText to also throw an exception then I'd >> be fine with having .responseXML also throw. > > [Zhenbin Xu] Sounds good. Thanks! FWIW, I exlained why these members do not throw currently in this e-mail: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2008AprJun/0188.html Which contained a pointer to this thread: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2008Feb/thread.html#msg94 Where it is explained that throwing for responseText and responseXML is not implemented in a consistent way in Internet Explorer and breaks some library. All the subsequent e-mails (in reply to my explanation) were about parse errors and did not address the issues with throwing for responseText and responseXML as far as I can tell (instead of returning the empty string and null). (Also, would it be possible to use slightly less verbose and more to the point subject lines? It would help a lot with skimming through e-mail, of which I get quite bit :/) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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