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Bug 26961 - Recommend against JavaScript SyntaxError
Summary: Recommend against JavaScript SyntaxError
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebIDL (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cameron McCormack
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
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Reported: 2014-10-03 08:16 UTC by Anne
Modified: 2014-10-03 08:54 UTC (History)
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Description Anne 2014-10-03 08:16:03 UTC 
http://heycam.github.io/webidl/#dfn-create-exception

We might want to recommend against creating JavaScript SyntaxError from web standards. Per Allen it is solely intended for parse errors of JavaScript. That it was used for JSON was a mistake and we should probably not give opportunity to spread it further (so defaulting to DOMException "SyntaxError" is great already).
Comment 1 Cameron McCormack 2014-10-03 08:35:06 UTC 
Should I just remove it from the list of "simple exceptions" then?  If it's not meant to be used anywhere else that'd be better than warning people off it.
Comment 2 Anne 2014-10-03 08:41:23 UTC 
Yeah I guess that's fine. Perhaps better to change IDL to allow it once there's an Allen-vetted use case.