[whatwg] Resource loading in browsing context-less Documents
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Wed Dec 19 12:11:41 PST 2012
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 12/18/12 3:25 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > Looking at the spec and at browsers more carefully, it seems that this
> > is actually per spec (i.e. the spec says to follow the link).
>
> Does it say to do that if the ownerDocument of the <a> has no associated
> browsing context? What if it's not the currently active document?
Firefox and IE do not check a checkbox from such a document when .click()
is invoked on it, while WebKit and Opera do:
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/2032
However, when it comes to an <a> element with a target="_blank" attribute
in the same situation, only Opera seems to open the link:
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/2033
So I've put in a block on the handling of <a> (and <area>) elements
specifically, making their activation behaviour nil if their doc doesn't
have a browsing context (I didn't check if it has to be an active one). A
similar block was present on <form>'s submission algorithm.
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