935365 - (web compat) window.scrollTo() should not throw an error when called with 0 or 1 arguments

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: CSS Object Model, defect, P5)

Description

[Philip Rogers]

Over in Chromium we recently looked into window.scrollTo() and found some cross-browser inconsistencies in the edge case of no arguments:
Chromium - window.scrollTo() scrolls to the top of the window
IE - window.scrollTo() scrolls to the top of the window
Safari - window.scrollTo() scrolls to the top of the window
Firefox - window.scrollTo() throws "Exception... Not enough arguments [nsIDOMWindow.scrollTo]."

(similarly for window.scroll and window.scrollBy)

This isn't spec'ed (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/browsers.html#window) and is incredibly minor, but it would be nice if we all aligned on one behavior. For reference, this was discussed in the comments of https://codereview.chromium.org/59863003. This may be a good first bug for someone :)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is in fact specced at http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom-view/#extensions-to-the-window-interface and the spec as currently written requires the Gecko behavior.  Perhaps the spec needs to change, in which case you should just raise this as a spec issue.

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

If you have questions, please contact :mdaly.

Comment 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

We support no arguments these days.