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Bug 11320 - IE and Gecko also invoke onerror for compile time syntax errors
Summary: IE and Gecko also invoke onerror for compile time syntax errors
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-11-15 13:15 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:34 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-11-15 13:15:51 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/webappapis.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#runtime-script-errors

Comment:
IE and Gecko also invoke onerror for compile time syntax errors

Posted from: 85.227.152.46
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-12-30 05:54:38 UTC 
Do you have a test case demonstrating what you mean?
Comment 3 Simon Pieters 2011-01-03 11:16:35 UTC 
(Hmm, maybe that should have been Array.prototype.join, although Array.join worked in Gecko. I guess for older IE you need something else altogether.)
Comment 4 contributor 2011-02-03 21:28:27 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5827.
Check-in comment: move the 'onerror' stuff up to script execution and away from the no-more-related events stuff
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5826&to=5827
Comment 5 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-02-03 21:32:19 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 6 contributor 2011-02-03 21:33:26 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5828.
Check-in comment: report compile-time errors as well as runtime errors (and a typo fix from an earlier checkin)
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5827&to=5828
Comment 7 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:34:55 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1