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Bug 8325 - Please remove requirements that errors "must be reported to the user" and "should be reported to the user" throughout; "may be reported to the user" is appropriate. [sp]
Summary: Please remove requirements that errors "must be reported to the user" and "sh...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-11-17 14:43 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:45 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-11-17 14:43:25 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#runtime-script-errors

Comment:
Please remove requirements that errors "must be reported to the user" and "should be reported to the user" throughout; "may be reported to the user" is appropriate.  [sp]

Posted from: 88.131.66.80
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-05 08:09:03 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. Four occurrences changed to "may".
Comment 2 contributor 2010-01-05 08:11:28 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4479.
Check-in comment: Avoid requiring that the user be notified of something, since that's a UI issue.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4478&to=4479
Comment 3 Simon Pieters 2010-02-11 07:42:23 UTC 
     <p>Any uncaught exceptions thrown or errors caused by this
-    function must be reported to the user immediately after the error
+    function may be reported to the user immediately after the error
     that the function was called for, without using the <span
     title="report the error">report an error</span> algorithm
     again.</p>

This seems to make it's conforming to use the report an error algorithm again. It should probably say that the algorithm must not run again.
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-17 10:32:25 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Well spotted. Please reopen if the fix is inadequate; I think I made it make sense, but this is a bit subtle.
Comment 5 contributor 2010-02-17 10:34:17 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4760.
Check-in comment: Fix up a recent change that accidentally turned an implied 'must' into an implied 'may'.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4759&to=4760