[whatwg] [CORS] WebKit tainting image instead of throwing error

[Adam Barth]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> On 10/6/11 12:11 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
>>
>> It sounds like you're arguing that it's better for developers if we
>> fail fast and hard
>
> In some cases, yes.  It's a tradeoff in every case, obviously.
>
> A meta-issue: if you disagree with the spec text when implementing
> something, silently implementing something else seems strictly worse than
> raising a spec issue (and still implementing something else if desired).

I didn't knowingly diverge from the spec.  I didn't notice the strict
error checking when writing the patch.

> Especially for things that you're planning to implement unprefixed.

We implemented this feature without a prefix at Ian's specific request.

> Likewise for cases when the spec is unclear, etc.  What's the point of
> having implementations early in the specification process if they don't
> actually provide feedback and instead only serve to lock in behaviors?

I think you're being a big aggressive.  In any case, I didn't have any
ill intent.  I just misunderstood because it never occurred to me that
we'd want to fail hard on this sort of error.

Adam