- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:28:35 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Cameron McCormack wrote: > > I began testing all attributes and operations with DOMString arguments > from a selection of specs for their behaviour wrt null and undefined: > > http://mcc.id.au/2009/01/string-handling/string-handling > > Each pair of characters in the column for a browser is the behaviour for > null and undefined, respectively. It?s nowhere near complete, though > you can see that there are some operations arguments and attributes that > stringify null to "null" (?S? in the column). In particular it seems that IE does this reliably. After spot checking a few more using IE8, I have left the HTML5 spec and the other specs I work on at using the WebIDL defaults. If there are specific cases that people believe should be treated specially, please raise those explicitly. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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