Re: Should / Can an EventHandler throw a stack overflow exception? from Anne van Kesteren on 2014-06-30 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2014)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:40:19 +0200
To: Yutaka Hirano <yhirano@google.com>
Cc: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CADnb78g09A7=xNKBmxqEZk9sy4pFwL0T1WbQ-_ima+YKekLoGA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Yutaka Hirano <yhirano@google.com> wrote:
> But it is unclear to me whether a stack overflow exception is counted
> as an exception thrown inside an event listener.

Are stack overflow exceptions even a thing per standards?

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17713 is the issue on
clarifying exception behavior around events. (Please don't use DOM
Level 3 Events as a reference for implementing the event model.)

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