[whatwg] [editing] queryCommand(Indeterm|State|Value) for commands where they make no sense from Ryosuke Niwa on 2011-09-19 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from September 2011)

From: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:37:34 -0700
Message-ID: <CABNRm60o_rHRDf8DcB1cJBewpmX8c1o0nMX=LsJ4_m9isLTTOg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Aryeh Gregor <ayg at aryeh.name> wrote:
>
> If there will be no change without data, and no one is in the process
> of actively gathering data, then I'll change the spec to require the
> more compatible behavior for now, which is to say not throwing.  This
> will still not be precisely compatible with how IE/WebKit work, of
> course, but as usual, there's no way to be compatible with everyone.
>

Not throwing makes sense to me (at least for now). What value should they
return though?

- Ryosuke

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