- From: scott lewis <sfl@scotfl.ca>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:47:53 -0600
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 28 Jun 2007, at 0448, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > At 04:39 -0600 UTC, on 2007-06-28, scott lewis wrote: > >> On 28 Jun 2007, at 0354, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: >> >>> At 14:40 +0300 UTC, on 2007-06-27, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > [...] > > ["browsing context" vs "web page"] > >>>> Different Web pages can be loaded into one browser context one >>>> after >>>> another over time. It says so in the next paragraph after the term >>>> definition. >>> >>> For the life of me I cannot find that. >> >> 4.1. Browsing contexts > > [...] > > Where does it say "web page"; what that is? "Web Page" in this discussion could be interpreted as equivalent to a Document. The spec does not give a precise definition of "web page". However, that is not necessarily a flaw in the spec as the term "web page" is not used in the definition of the <object> element, which is the topic of this thread. A "browsing context" consists (basically) of a History and a View. The History contains a list of previously- viewed HTML Documents (aka web pages) and other media the browser is willing to display. The View is, essentially, the content are of the browser window. Thus, the difference between a "web page" and a "browsing context" is that a web page is a single resource and a browsing context is a mechanism for viewing multiple resources. scott.
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