[whatwg] Storage events

Jonas Sicking jonas at sicking.cc
Sat Oct 17 23:58:22 PDT 2009


On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> ...
>>
>> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Darin Fisher wrote:
>> >
>> > This is interesting since documentURI is a read/write property:
>> > http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#Document3-documentURI
>>
>> I assume that is a mistake. Does anyone support documentURI? It seems
>> completely redundant with document.URL.
>>
>
> Gecko and WebKit appear to both support documentURI.  Only WebKit allows it
> to be modified.

Huh? So WebKit effectively have one of the main features of pushState
already? Does the URL-bar change? Does the referrer change for
subsequent requests such as navigation? I'm guessing it doesn't hook
the back-button the way that pushState does though.

/ Jonas


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