Re: ACTION-61: text for embedding part of the Window object

On Mar 6, 2006, at 11:09 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:

>
> Yet another question on window.name.  What should happen in the  
> situation that is described in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ 
> show_bug.cgi?id=269174 ?

It's not immediately clear to me.

The name set by "window.open" persists across document loads  
normally, and this seems analogous.

But it does seem bad for a document to be able to set state that  
breaks the behavior of another document loaded subsequently.

Can you think of a way the existing browser behavior might be  
exploitable?

Conversely, do you have a proposal for what the behavior should be?

At the very least, the Window spec should not rule out clearing the  
name property on navigation.

Regards,
Maciej