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was curious how this ( http://gizmodo.com/it-really-sucks-to-be-named-jennifer-null-1767159091 ) even happens - how does a form input validate a string value from a submitted form as equivalent to null???
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| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html lang='en'> | |
| <head> | |
| <meta charset='utf-8'> | |
| <meta content='IE=edge,chrome=1' http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible'> | |
| <meta content='text/html;charset=utf-8' http-equiv='Content-Type'> | |
| <title>null</title> | |
| <!-- was curious how this ( http://gizmodo.com/it-really-sucks-to-be-named-jennifer-null-1767159091 ) even happens - how does a form input validate a string value from a submitted form as equivalent to null??? --> | |
| <script type="text/javascript"> | |
| function do_it() { | |
| var the_thing = document.getElementById('the_thing').value; | |
| var interpreted_thing = ''; | |
| if (the_thing == null) { | |
| interpreted_thing = 'literally null'; | |
| } else if (the_thing == '') { | |
| interpreted_thing = 'blank'; | |
| } else { | |
| interpreted_thing = the_thing; | |
| } | |
| alert('yo, the thing is '+interpreted_thing); | |
| } | |
| </script> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <form> | |
| <label for="the_thing">The thing:</label> | |
| <input type="text" id="the_thing" /> | |
| <input type="submit" value="what" onclick="javascript:do_it(); return false;" /> | |
| </form> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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It seems that people on the original article are just as confused as I am! http://gizmodo.com/it-s-not-even-just-bad-programming-it-seems-like-delib-1767173941