Re: [WebIDL][Selectors-API] Stringifying null for DOMString attributes and properties

Lachlan Hunt:
>   WebIDL currently specifies in the ECMAScript to IDL type mapping
> [1] that null stringifies to "null" by default, unless otherwise
> specified with [TreatNullAs=EmptyString].
…
> Recently, in order to resolve a site compatibility issue caused by
> us stringifying to "null" for some properties, we made all DOMString
> APIs consistent in their handling of null, such that they now
> stringify to an empty string.  We believe this is compatible with
> other implementations for all other attributes and properties that
> we are aware of.
> 
> But this fix also had the result of changing the way we handled null
> in selectors-api, for which we used to stringify as "null".
> 
> I've been informed that Cameron has plans to update WebIDL to make
> this the default too, but hasn't yet done so.

FYI, I made that change yesterday.

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