Re: Figuring out the behavior of WindowProxy in the face of non-configurable properties from Boris Zbarsky on 2015-01-15 (public-script-coord@w3.org from January to March 2015)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:52:50 -0500
To: Travis Leithead <travis.leithead@microsoft.com>, "Mark S. Miller" <erights@google.com>
CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>, es-discuss <es-discuss@mozilla.org>
Message-ID: <54B70F62.20307@mit.edu>

On 1/14/15 5:58 PM, Travis Leithead wrote:
> The other challenge that just came to mind, is the
> document object—at least in Gecko and IE: a document.write call will
> “re-init” the object (subbing out the old var for a new one)

What Gecko does on document.open is just create a new Window, just like 
navigation.  This part is actually pretty clearly defined in the HTML spec.

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 15 January 2015 00:53:20 UTC