- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 13:54:56 -0500
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Jorge <jorge at jorgechamorro.com> wrote: > On the other hand, it will be so forever Correct, it will be. > unless the spec says *not* to throw but to skip over instead, so that in a few years the cleanup can be ~safely skipped. Nope. The spec isn't going to change browser behavior here if there are sites that depend on the current behavior -- and reportedly there are. There's just no incentive for browsers to change; the proposed behavior isn't sufficiently superior to warrant even slight compatibility pain. We can change web APIs in ways that might cause some compatibility pain if we have good reason, but for really minor things like this it's just not worth it. Browsers can only afford to break a certain number of websites per release before users start to get annoyed, and we shouldn't be wasting it on things like this. (IMO as a non-implementer, anyway. My opinion doesn't actually carry any weight here, though. I'm just guessing what implementers will say.)
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