- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 19:55:08 -0700
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Cc: "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On May 2, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote:
>
> Boris Zbarsky:
>> In that case, the null behavior doesn't make any sense to me... I
>> would
>> expect querySelector(null) to either behave as
>> querySelector("null") (as
>> in Opera) or as querySelector("") (as in Gecko and apparently
>> Webkit)...
>
> If there’s a need for null to stringify to "", then I can add another
> extended attribute to Web IDL.
It needs to for many standard DOM methods. Most core DOM methods that
take namespaces treat a null namespaceURI or prefix parameter the same
as the empty string, not the same as the string "null". As mentioned,
I advise looking at WebKit's IDL files since we have represented most
of the weird cases there. I think the empty string conversion may
actually be somewhat more common in DOM APIs, although it is not the
native ECMAScript string conversion behavior.
Regards,
Maciej
Received on Saturday, 3 May 2008 02:55:47 UTC