[whatwg] Form data append behavior on null type

Victor Costan costan at gmail.com
Mon Dec 30 23:01:19 PST 2013


I filed a bug, and I'll work on a fix. http://crbug.com/331180

Boris, thank you very much for the test case! :)

Please add any other information you may have to the bug.
    Victor


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> On 12/31/13 1:44 AM, Tingan Ho wrote:
>>
>> Right now, Chrome, Firefox, Opera uses emtpy strings *""*. Safari and IE
>> uses null string *"null".*
>
>
> May I ask which Firefox version you tested?  I would think that Firefox 20
> and newer would be sending "null" here, and testing on
> http://jsfiddle.net/fbgLg/ suggests that I think correctly.
>
>
>> So this problem will be there until a standard is applied.
>
>
> Since Blink is the only actively-developed browser engine sending "" instead
> of "null" here, it's probably best to just file a bug on Blink asking them
> to follow the spec.
>
> -Boris



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