Re: [whatwg] Effect on window.opener when navigating an existing window using window.open

On 8 July 2014 17:20, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote:

> Yes, our behavior is same as Firefox and Chrome.

Thanks for confirming.

> I'm somewhat concerned about the backwards compatibility given behaviors
of
> Chrome, Firefox, and Safari match and only Internet Explorer matches the
spec.
>
> But perhaps it's red herring given this is such an unpopular property to
begin with.

Possibly and also Presto had the same behaviour as Trident, so hopefully
very few people will be relying on the not-as-spec behaviour.

> > I've got a fix for Gecko, but we're concerned that there might be some
> > compat issues and I haven't had time to look into it.
>
> Would you care to share the Bugzilla number for Gecko?

Here's a link:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174349

Cheers,
Bob

Received on Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:42:53 UTC