[whatwg] Resource loading in browsing context-less Documents

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Fri Oct 5 15:51:19 PDT 2012


On 10/5/12 6:04 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu
> <mailto:bzbarsky at mit.edu>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/5/12 4:09 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
>         Yeah sure, I'm not opposed to that. But that seems like a somewhat
>         bigger change, no? E.g. then you would also change <a>.click() be a
>         no-op I suppose? Or <form>.submit().
>
>
>     Are they not already?
>
>
> a.click() is definitely not a no-op when not in a document

The question is what it is when a.ownerDocument has no defaultView.  The 
"not in a document" case is a different issue.

-Boris



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