[Bug 11201] New: Hi there, Reading through the HTML5 Offline spec at http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/offline.html , the spec is not clear on what should happen if the manifest attribute of the html tag is modified during/after the document has loaded. eg, if Javascript is u

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11201

           Summary: Hi there, Reading through the HTML5 Offline spec at
                    http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/offline.html , the spec
                    is not clear on what should happen if the manifest
                    attribute of the html tag is modified during/after the
                    document has loaded.  eg, if Javascript is u
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/spec.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top

Comment:
Hi there,

Reading through the HTML5 Offline spec at
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/offline.html , the spec is not clear on what
should happen if the manifest attribute of the html tag is modified
during/after the document has loaded.  eg, if Javascript is used during/after
page load to manipulate the manifest attribute using eg
document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].setAttribute("manifest",
"offline.manifest");  should the browser start firing the 'checking' event and
run through the application cache download process?  Should it ignore it? 
Currently, different browser vendors have different behaviour for this action
and I believe there should be efforts to standardise it.  Personally, I
believe that the browser should be required to start the application cache
download process as soon as the manifest attribute is changed.

Cheers,
Eion

Posted from: 210.54.239.100

-- 
Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the QA contact for the bug.

Received on Tuesday, 2 November 2010 20:06:04 UTC