- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 00:12:58 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>, public-webapi@w3.org
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > FF3 (removing the header) demonstrates that this case (null value) either > > > should be left unspecified, or specified with a more useful behavior. > > > > Firefox demonstrates that it is not interoperable with the three other > > browsers. It does not demonstrate anything about the need to do this > > differently than currently specified. > > Setting a header to null, and expecting the header to be sent as "null" > is a bug. You haven't provided any evidence of clients relying on this. > > Please do not wire bad API design like this into the spec, even if it's > common for Javascript APIs. I have to say, I would rather prefer it be treated as "". -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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