On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:32:16 +0100, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> > wrote: >> alert() requires it. > > How so? I couldn't imagine how a site could depend on that. Debugging, for one. You can't mean that you'd consider making alert(null) give a dialog that contains the empty string rather than "null". >> Besides that I believe we (Opera) specifically did it >> for methods here and there to be more compatible with Internet Explorer >> and make sites work better. > > Do you know of any sites worked better because of the change? Or > indeed that were affected at all by the change? No, sorry. I believe WebKit is doing it as well though for a number of methods/attributes, but it's been a while since I looked into this. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>Received on Tuesday, 13 January 2009 11:28:42 GMT
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