window.open() throws on an invalid URL parameter

Category: DOM
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 60)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Currently, we only log a message to the console. For consistency with other APIs, the WhatWG spec now requires that window.open throws a DOMException "SyntaxError" instead.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#apis-for-creating-and-navigating-browsing-contexts-by-name:parse-a-url
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: Positive
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/708135

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