>> http://w3c-test.org/web-platform-tests/master/XMLHttpRequest/send-entity-body-document-bogus.htm >> >> It passes a completely empty document without even a document element to >> send(). No implementation throws.
> I think the reason here is that what the spec says is the right thing, and > there probably isn't a Web compat reason not to do the right thing, but > browsers haven't considered this to be high priority to fix. Well, that may be the reason - and I'm not aware of any compat issues anyone has had in the past because of exceptions here. It still seems a bit suspect that all implementors have aligned perfectly on the spec-wise wrong behaviour. It also carries a bit of a risk to push for introducing new exceptions and make code that didn't throw historically change behaviour. > Maybe we could remove the throwing from the spec, but it seems kind of sad > to not catch this in the serializer. Sort of.. but then again, I guess a completely empty string could be considered a valid representation of a completely empty document..? :-) -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
