On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > In a browser, the result of loading about:blank must certainly be a > Document object which allows document.write() to be called on it. That's somewhat separate from what the contents of about:blank are, given the current definitions in the spec. > I'd bet money that not having a document.body would also break web > pages. The empty string results in a document where document.body is non-null per the current parser spec. The main difference I see is the mode (quirks vs no-quirks) that should be used by default. My assumption has been that we need a quirks-mode about:blank (also handled by the empty string). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Monday, 26 January 2009 23:00:21 UTC
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