[whatwg] Specs for window.atob() and window.btoa()

• From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:32:28 -0500
• Message-ID: <AANLkTimDmi9nO=OhMaTzs8JQ4h=rgaAv-UJ0Qd4Jn6H8@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> The problem is that at least some current browsers (which ones?) throw. ?So
> you wouldn't be able to rely on the non-throwing behavior anyway.... ?:(

Everyone except Opera throws on invalid characters in atob() input,
and IIRC, I was told by Opera devs that not throwing caused compat
problems for them.  So I don't think this is worth trying to change.

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