Anne van Kesteren (2014-01-11T14:13:02.000Z)
domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2014-01-17T04:42:13.595Z)
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen at wirfs-brock.com> wrote: > [...] it might be reasonable to have a solution that isn't tied to a specific environment. Agreed. I have argued the same for URL parsing http://url.spec.whatwg.org/ at some point. As for the API in the Encoding Standard, I think the only strong tie to the DOM at this point is its usage of DOMException. I have a few times on this list tried to figure out what the right way forward is for exceptions within the web platform so that they still fit well within the ES universe, but none of those led anywhere satisfactory yet.