[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 83993] Unsupported commands in execCommand/queryCommand* should throw except queryCommandSupported

Mon Apr 16 14:43:08 PDT 2012

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83993

Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #13 from Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>  2012-04-16 14:43:08 PST ---
> unless nobody has ever tested them with IE, which would be rather surprising.

How would testing with IE tell developers that another engine doesn't support a certain verb? This is a flawed argument.

I think that this is a pretty obvious WONTFIX, as this suggestion is of no use to Web developers, and only carries site compatibility risks to users. 

Certain engineers may prefer draconian error handling, but this is no place to retrofit it as an exception to how the Web platform generally works. Doing this would be akin to dropping whole CSS stylesheets when any single rule is unknown.

There has been a long discussion already, without new ideas coming, so this seems safe to close.

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