[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 44887] On <select>, setting reflected attribute size to negative number should throw exception

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44887





--- Comment #4 from Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+webkit at gmail.com>  2011-03-17 10:38:51 PST ---
Yeah, it turns out that the spec as written is not web-compatible:

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12288

The preexisting behavior in IE is to throw an exception on negative numbers but not on 0, and the preexisting behavior in all other browsers is to accept any value.  The spec requires throwing an exception on negative numbers and on 0, which is not only probably not web-compatible, but also insane -- as Mounir points out, it means

var select = document.createElement('select');
select.size = select.size;

throws an exception.

Mounir suggests that the spec be changed to match IE's behavior.  If you think it should be changed to other browsers' behavior, it would be a good idea to comment on that bug.

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