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
