Re: [whatwg] Exceptions in UndoManager

My first concern is "what state will the UndoManager be in when an
exception happens?"  There may be transactions that were undone, cropped
off


On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org> wrote:

> When an exception is thrown within transact(), the most sane behavior
> appears to be rolling back all DOM changes that have made thus far (this in
> turn may also fail due to mutation events, etc...). Also this is not
> possible with manual transactions because browsers don't keep track of
> what's happening in the DOM, etc...
>
> So how about just firing an event like DOMTransactionException at the undo
> scope host to let scripts handle them?
>

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