- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:50:15 +0200
- To: "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:56:01 +0200, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org> wrote: > Le 12 juin 2007 à 01:54, Anne van Kesteren a écrit : >> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:20:39 +0200, Henrik Dvergsdal >> <henrik.dvergsdal@hibo.no> wrote: >>> getAttribute must return null if the attribute is not present. >> >> It is correct that user agents have to do that, but there is no >> specification so far that supports that assertion. > > Hmmm, it sounds strange, to be able to retrieve the value of something > which doesn't exist. Because in this case getAttributeNode = Null > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113/ > core.html#ID-745549614 Sure, but getAttribute doesn't. getAttribute returns the empty string per specification. There needs to be a new type of DOM specification for web browsers... -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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