[Bug 10523] Scripting disabled check should happen after setting 'already started'

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10523


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




--- Comment #2 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2010-09-25 19:57:42 ---
What does "Web platform feature-required script disablement" mean?

Why would we want to check the language after setting "already started"?
Keeping it before means you can insert a script with one type, then insert it
again with another type, and it'll only execute once (the first type the
browser supports). Not that this is hugely helpful, but what's the advantage of
the opposite?

What do other browsers do? Gecko is not the only browser, that Gecko does
something is not an argument to change the spec any more than WebKit doing
something. We have to check multiple browsers for existing browser
implementation to be an argument one way or the other.

I've moved the policy check to after the setting of "already started" since
that seems like a security win.


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