spec/Overview.html 1.1103 1913 Spec out the behaviour we see in IE for

Spec out the behaviour we see in IE for navigating to about:blank or
javascript: URLs vs other URLs. (whatwg r1913)

Diffs for this change per section: 
  Fragment identifiers: If the absolute URL of the new resource is the same as the address of the active document of the browsing context being navigated, ignoring any <fragment> components of those URLs, and the new resource is to be fetched using HTTP GET or equivalent, then navigate to that fragment identifier and abort these steps.
  http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1103.html#navigate-fragid-step

Cumulative diff: http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.diff.html

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.1102&r2=1.1103&f=h

http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=1912&to=1913

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--- Overview.html 23 Jul 2008 21:08:41 -0000 1.1102
+++ Overview.html 23 Jul 2008 21:49:50 -0000 1.1103
@@ -35043,6 +35043,15 @@
      return to <a href="#navigate-fragid-step">the step labeled "fragment
      identifiers"</a> with the new resource.</p>
 
+    <p>If fetching the resource is instantaneous, as it should be for <a
+     href="#the-javascript" title="javascript protocol"><code
+     title="">javascript:</code> URLs</a> and <code>about:blank</code>, then
+     this must be synchronous, but if fetching the resource depends on
+     external resources, as it usually does for URLs that use HTTP or other
+     networking protocols, then at this point the user agents must yield to
+     whatever script invoked the navigation steps, if they were invoked by
+     script.</p>
+
     <p class=example>For example, imagine an HTML page with an associated
      application cache displaying an image and a form, where the image is
      also used by several other application caches. If the user right-clicks

Received on Thursday, 24 July 2008 06:19:26 UTC