Re: [MIX] 5.1 Does settings object restrict mixed content?

(Starting down this road in
https://github.com/w3c/webappsec/commit/06a8ddc723242a5518b7f3a75d9835dc21301f43
).

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Mike West <mkwst@google.com> wrote:

> Given a document, it's not clear how to walk its ancestor chain without
> referring to browsing contexts. I might very well be missing something: if
> I'd like to check whether the document that's embedding me (or the document
> that's embedding my parent) has some bit of state, how should I go about
> doing it?
>
> -mike
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> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>> > > Sure, but why is /b relevant to /a in this example? They're unrelated,
>> > > no?
>> >
>> > Yeah, but the browsing context is the same. The browsing context terms
>> > such as browsing context container, nested browsing context, etc.
>> > represents a sequence of documents whereas for some scenarios you just
>> > want to look at a document and not its browsing context whose active
>> > document might be something else.
>> >
>> > So e.g. if you have a browsing context that has two documents associated
>> > with it. And the first of those documents has an nested browsing
>> > context. And you want to make an assertion of sorts about that nested
>> > browsing context's top-level browsing context, it may no longer have a
>> > nested browsing context.
>>
>> Generally speaking we should be talking about the document, not the
>> browsing context, sure.
>>
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