[whatwg] about:blank document handling in history

Adam Barth whatwg at adambarth.com
Thu Dec 31 15:39:02 PST 2009


On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> On 12/31/09 3:07 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
>>
>> Firefox and IE distinguish between about:blank documents and ""
>> documents for this purpose, if I remember correctly.
>
> At the moment, Firefox in fact does not.  See
> http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/8bb9bb88e997/content/base/src/nsFrameLoader.cpp#l162
>
> We're considering possibly changing that internally, but the resulting
> external behavior would still need to be the same as now.

You're right, as you always are.  :)

Adam



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