getAttribute() always non-null

[Maks Orlovich]

> btw, I'm still not sure why we want to break at all a proposal that has
> been asserted in DOM 2 and is *re-asserted* in DOM 3 for this lone
> page/application, that is not so critical, and that is supposedly standards
> aware? are there any known others?

Yes. Yahoo mail. And looking at Safari history, something on iht.com relied on 
this behavior as well.