Cannot assign empty string value to select option

[spacejack]

The following hyperscript will not set the select option value to ''

m('select', m('option', {value: ''}, 'Choose...'))

Instead, the value of that option will be 'Choose...'

jsbin demo comparing behaviour of plain HTML and Mithril: https://jsbin.com/zoqajeyoso/edit?html,js,output

[spacejack]

I think it comes down to this line: https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/blob/next/render/render.js#L484

It's tricky to solve though because of that Chrome hack. I think while the option element is built, it has no children (the text content) and therefore its value is == ''. It's only after the text child is added that the value will be different from ''. I tried changing the comparison to === but it doesn't seem to work; I suppose the value is an empty string by default.

I wonder if that Chrome hack is still necessary. Removing that line makes the test pass.

EDIT: Not sure, but maybe this would work:

if (vnode.tag === "option" && key === "value" && old != null && vnode.dom.value == value) return