How is this possible?

[Russ_Thomas]

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Fix Poorly Named/Broken APIs

getAttribute This API will return a property when asked to retrieve the content of the value attribute. It will do this even when the value attribute is undefined! This is wrong, because… An element property is not the same as an element attribute. Note: Perhaps it always returns properties, I did not test that. Because there is existing test code reliant on the current behavior, the documentation should make clear this API is deprecated in favor of two new APIs which do the correct thin…