- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:47:36 -0700
- To: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
>> One last time, the facts:
>>
>> 1) There are DOM methods that accept DOMString arguments or return
>> DOMString values.
>
> Fact.
Sounds like you agree here.
>> 2) In general, such methods need to be able to tell apart null and all
>> string values (including "" and "null").
>
> They need to determine value type so that they can either throw or
> handle. null, 0, undefined, new String('x'), are all not strings.
Sounds like you agree here too?
>> 3) The behavior of null is almost always either that of "" or that of
>> "null". Which one depends on the exact DOM method.
>
> That is false. null has no behavior. Methods have behavior. For
> example, EcmaScript's internal ToString has a behavior of converting
> null to "null". That is a behavior.
You aren't actually answering Boris question, but rather point out a
grammatical error in the question. So let me repeat the question with
the grammatical error fixed. Please do excuse any other grammar errors I
introduce as English is a second language to me.
3) The behavior of the function when null is passed as value for an
argument is almost always either that of "" or that of "null".
Which one depends on the exact DOM method.
Do you agree with this?
/ Jonas
Received on Tuesday, 26 August 2008 23:49:15 UTC