- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:02:52 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, David Levin wrote: > > The wording in the Web Workers part of the spec about what to do for > onerror has confused a number of people. > > Recently, when asked about it, I thought that it should send through an > ErrorEvent when I was pointed at the spec (even though I had seen this > issue before). > > Owen Merkling added a repro case here under that assumption: > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35302 > > Separately, Yury Semikhatsky got it mixed up here: > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36375 > And a number of us (Jian Li, etc.) were confused about it. > > We can see that Ben Turner also found it confusing: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664650 > > Hopefully, the spec can be clarified in this regard to avoid > incompatibilities and confusion among implementors. One possible > clarification would be a link in the onerror section for Web Workers to > indicate that they use this definition: > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#report-the-error I spoke to bent earlier this evening, and tried to make some minor modifications to the spec to help make this clearer. Can you take a look and see if it's any better? If it's not, can you elaborate on what exactly is confusing? I tried to answer a question bent was asking but I am so familiar with the style that the spec is written in that I found the answer straight away and didn't see anything confusing, which doesn't help me make it better! :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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