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createElementNS() : Throw InvalidCharacterError instead of NamespaceError on validating a qualified name

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

In developer trial (Behind a flag) (Chrome 60)

Intent stage

None

Summary

createElementNS() should now throw only InvalidCharacterError, not NamespaceError. Validating a qualified name should only throw InvalidCharacterError, not NamespaceError, after: https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/319 https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/issues/5161 https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/423 Latest spec: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#validate

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#validate
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=702077

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