[whatwg] DOM Storage feedback

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Brady Eidson wrote:
> 
> Anne was asserting that since the interface for setItem() specifies a 
> DOMString as the input, anything you pass it will be stringified.  
> Therefore passing it the null value would be stringified to "null".  
> This is what you currently see in all the major browsers with 
> window.alert(null), for example, which is also specified as a DOMString 
> input parameter.
> 
> Therefore a call to setItem("foo", null); becomes, in effect, 
> setItem("foo", "null");
> 
> Is this correct?
> 
> If so, the spec is fine as-is, and removeItem() is the only way to 
> remove an individual item.

That is correct, at least currently. I am tempted to change this to 
[Null=Empty], though (i.e. make 'null' act like the empty string). 
However, I'm somewhat stuck on this as it depends on what happens with 
[Null] in WebIDL.

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