- From: Ian Hickson via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:49:53 +0000
- To: public-html-commits@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/html5/spec
In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv13858
Modified Files:
Overview.html
Log Message:
Spec out the behaviour we see in IE for navigating to about:blank or javascript: URLs vs other URLs. (whatwg r1913)
Index: Overview.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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return to <a href="#navigate-fragid-step">the step labeled "fragment
identifiers"</a> with the new resource.</p>
+ <p>If fetching the resource is instantaneous, as it should be for <a
+ href="#the-javascript" title="javascript protocol"><code
+ title="">javascript:</code> URLs</a> and <code>about:blank</code>, then
+ this must be synchronous, but if fetching the resource depends on
+ external resources, as it usually does for URLs that use HTTP or other
+ networking protocols, then at this point the user agents must yield to
+ whatever script invoked the navigation steps, if they were invoked by
+ script.</p>
+
<p class=example>For example, imagine an HTML page with an associated
application cache displaying an image and a form, where the image is
also used by several other application caches. If the user right-clicks
Received on Wednesday, 23 July 2008 21:59:57 UTC