<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Darin Fisher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darin@chromium.org">darin@chromium.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></font></div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">Hmm...<div><br>In Chrome we also create a new browsing context when the user types a new URL into the location bar of an existing tab. This can be thought of as a shortcut for "create a new tab with the given URL and close the old tab." (We only do this when the new URL is of a different domain.) Perhaps, IE8 is doing something similar. Jeremy didn't say how he navigated. A link click or any content driven navigation cannot be treated like this of course.<br>
<br></div><div>However, I believe that we should still restore the old sessionStorage when the user navigates back to the old URL just as we do for form state, scroll position, and other attributes normally associated with session history.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I typed a new URL into the address bar. I suppose I should try a links based experiment as well.</div><div><br></div><div>And yes, we'll have to copy this code out of the render process if we want such a scenario to work in Chrome. </div>
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