[whatwg] pattern attribute
Max Romantschuk
max at provico.fi
Mon Aug 23 02:47:37 PDT 2004
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Wrigley, Ave wrote:
>>3. Finally, is it necessary to have an ERROR_ for invalid regexes
Ian Hickson wrote:
> No, if the regexp is invalid, it is just ignored.
This is both a good thing and a bad thing. Ignoring the regexp makes
sense, but also makes debugging complex regexps a nightmare. Maybe
WHATWG should provide a reference implementation regexp checker and/or
debugger for these purposes?
Thoughts?
.max
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