(12/06/17 21:33), Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Always throwing SyntaxError is probably better.
I have no opinion here besides that I think this should be well-defined. (12/06/17 21:50), Aryeh Gregor wrote: > I'm not sure what Anne meant, but I'd think we should just always > require SyntaxError, including for namespace errors. Do enough people > really use namespaces that they deserve a separate exception? Probably no. > CSS itself treats namespace errors the same as syntax errors in > stylesheets (right?), In the Selectors spec, in some sense, yes, but the spec didn't have to touch the JS stuff so I wouldn't rely on its insights into this. > so it doesn't make sense to require Selectors > APIs to distinguish them. As long as browsers are willing to change this old behavior, agreed. (By the way, another irrelevant editorial feedback: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api2/ 6.5 3-1 s/dom_relative_selectors_group/dom_selectors_group/ ) Cheers, Kenny