[whatwg] document.documentURI

[Ian Hickson]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Darin Fisher 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.

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
> 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.

I think this is something for Web DOM Core. I've noted it as an issue on 
the wiki:

   http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Companion_specifications#Specs_to_edit

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