Re: [whatwg] WebIDL and HTML5

Jonas Sicking:
> I'm actually going to stop here. There are plenty of references in the  
> spec to DOMStrings having the value null. So while it's not specifically  
> clear in the definition of DOMString it seems clear to me that null is a  
> valid value for DOMString. So no conversion using any conversion  
> operator is needed. Thus I don't think talking about what ToString does  
> is relevant to the discussion.

The fact that DOMString has been defined as a boxed valuetype in the DOM
Core IDL is what allows a null value, as I understand it.

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Received on Tuesday, 26 August 2008 07:58:55 UTC