- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:20:08 +0200
- To: "Brady Eidson" <beidson@apple.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "WHATWG Mailing List" <whatwg@whatwg.org>, "public-html-comments@w3.org" <public-html-comments@w3.org>
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:14:03 +0200, Brady Eidson <beidson@apple.com> wrote: > I would like to make sure that my understanding is correct here, since > you expressed doubt. > > Anne was asserting that since the interface for setItem() specifies a > DOMString as the input, anything you pass it will be stringified. > Therefore passing it the null value would be stringified to "null". > This is what you currently see in all the major browsers with > window.alert(null), for example, which is also specified as a DOMString > input parameter. > > Therefore a call to setItem("foo", null); becomes, in effect, > setItem("foo", "null"); > > Is this correct? > > If so, the spec is fine as-is, and removeItem() is the only way to > remove an individual item. This was what I was suggesting, yes. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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