Re: Newly-created browsing contexts and about:blank from Boris Zbarsky on 2011-04-21 (public-html@w3.org from April 2011)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:12:42 -0400
To: public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <4DAF767A.20002@mit.edu>

On 4/20/11 11:07 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 23:50 -0800, Adam Barth wrote:
>> 3) Have you tested about:blank navigation via other APIs?  For
>> example, what happens if you set the src attribute of an iframe to
>> about:blank if the iframe is currently displaying a normal URL?
>
> I tried navigating an iframe using .contentWindow.location =
> "about:blank" and all browsers except Opera seemed to navigate
> asynchronously.

For what it's worth, that's a different test than the one Adam proposed.

-Boris

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