Consider this testcase:

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <body>
    <canvas id="c" width="200" height="200"></canvas>
    <script>
    try {
      var c = document.getElementById("c"),
      t = c.getContext("2d");
      t.moveTo(100, 100);
      t.lineTo(NaN, NaN);
      t.lineTo(50, 25);
      t.stroke();
    } catch (e) {alert(e); }
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Behavior in the spec seems to be undefined (in particular, no mention is made as to what the canvas API functions are supposed to do if non-finite values are passed in). Behavior in browsers is:

Presto: Throws NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR on that lineTo(NaN, NaN) call.
Gecko: Throws DOM_SYNTAX_ERR on that lineTo(NaN, NaN) call.
Webkit: Silently ignores the lineTo(NaN, NaN) call, and then
        draws a line from (100,100) to (50, 25).

Seems like the spec needs to define this.

-Boris

P.S. This isn't a hypothetical issue; this came up in a page that was trying to graph things using canvas and ending up with divide-by-0 all over the place. It "worked" in webkit (though not drawing the right thing, so much). It failed to draw anything in Presto or Gecko.

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