- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:14:06 +0100
- To: "Stewart Brodie" <stewart.brodie@antplc.com>, public-webapi@w3.org
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:51:04 +0100, Stewart Brodie <stewart.brodie@antplc.com> wrote: > "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:00:35 +0100, Stewart Brodie >> <stewart.brodie@antplc.com> wrote: >> >> http://tc.labs.opera.com/apis/XMLHttpRequest/open/ >> > >> > In such a case of a window having been deleted, and consequently the >> > document within that window, what is the base URI? Is it the base URI >> > of the last document that inhabited the window? >> >> The Window is not deleted. > > Does that go for the document too? Yes. I'm not sure why it would be removed. After all, the Window object has references to it. http://tc.labs.opera.com/apis/XMLHttpRequest/open/015.htm tests this. > Does this mean that any Window whose document uses XMLHttpRequest will > continue to exist and consume resources until the entire browser process > terminates? That depends on whether the XMLHttpRequest object is used outside that Window. I suppose that with certain implementation techniques you can also limit the amount of resources needed. Rendering and such is no longer necessary for instance. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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