- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:45:51 -0400
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- CC: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 6/18/10 2:58 AM, Daniel Glazman wrote:
>>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
>>> Transitional//EN"><html><head><title></title></head><body></body></html>
>>
>> Where by "currently" we mean "shipping Firefox". Development builds have
>> about:blank be the empty HTML document. See
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514412
>
> Wow... Who said backwards-compatibility about HTML5? The current
> behaviour of mozilla's about:blank is ages old.
So? The behavior change is pretty trivial.
> This is going to drastically impact some big web sites on one hand
Hasn't so far.
> and more importantly mozilla add-ons all relying on the current
> about:blank containing a minimal HTML document.
Which it still does.
If you parse an empty stream with the HTML5 parser, you get a DOM
containing <html>, <head>, and <body> nodes.
So the only behavior changes are:
1) There is no longer a doctype node in about:blank.
2) There is no longer a <title> node in about:blank.
3) If you do "save as" on about:blank you get an empty file instead
of a file with a small HTML document in it.
> I am not sure _at all_ this is a good idea.
Other than a knee-jerk "it's different", why not?
-Boris
Received on Friday, 18 June 2010 14:46:25 UTC