On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:09:42 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
All major browsers return an empty document instead under most of
these conditions.
There's an open <ednote> on this. Basically people might do:
.responseXML.getElementsByTagName()
... of course, that would fail in cases where the document is sent as
text/html and probably others...
I'm worried that content will break with code like the above if we extend
the scenarios where returning null is mandatory.
Gecko doesn't ever return an empty document from XMLHttpRequest.
Sometimes it returns a bogus document with some "parseerror" markup in
it due to <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289714>; that's
a bug that needs to be fixed. [...]
OK, thanks for explaining.
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