On Jun 4, 2007, at 5:45 PM, liorean wrote:
On 05/06/07, Michael A. Puls II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/4/07, Jonas Sicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd really dislike having to have this one property behave
differently
> than other text properties in the DOM. How do opera/ie deal with
other
> text properties like .src, .id, .textContent?
For .src and .id, IE and Opera set "null".
Opera does the same for textContent.
For .src, this obviously means that IE and Opera will then return the
directory of the page + "null" where as FF will return the URI to the
page.
The way IE and Opera do "null" doesn't seem to be just limited to
innerHTML.
Seems to me like they are simply using the ECMAScript ToString
algorithm, unless I'm mistaken. That's probably a good thing to
specify for this, too.
I think DOM properties (and sometimes methods and function arguments)
vary on this. Some use the raw ECMAScript ToString algorithm. Others
additionally map the null value to the empty string instead of
"null". Still others map the undefined value to "undefined". Some do
both. I am pretty sure that for compatibility reasons you can't just
do the same for each, so we may as well just define and test the
legacy behavior for each one. Whatever is most common can be the
default, and others can be marked up in the IDL appropriately.
I think this overlaps with the Web API group's DOM bindings for
ECMAScript project.
Regards,
Maciej
