Re: <iframe doc="">

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 1/18/10 12:48 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
> > On the other hand, @doc would work is a follows:
> > 
> > 1) There's a function that gets called whenever the user agent
> > encounters a new attribute on an element.  When this function gets
> > called for an "doc" attribute on an iframe (or whichever elements
> > support the doc attribute), the following steps occur.
> > 
> > 2) Navigate the iframe to a new document.
> > 
> > 3) Feed the tokenizer for that document the contents of the doc attribute.
> 
> For what it's worth, my personal preference is that the @doc be parsed/loaded
> asynchronously, just like @src would be.  At least in Gecko's case we could
> actually pretty much reuse our normal pageload code, with just a small shim to
> create a "network load" that feeds in the @doc data, to implement that.  I
> can't speak to other implementations.

This is more or less what I had in mind, except that I would blow away the 
old browsing context and create a new one, rather than navigating the 
previous one. I believe this is what happens with setting src="", too.


> Of course this all ties back somewhat to the synchronous about:blank issue....

Unless someone can indicate a reason why not to do this, I expect that 
I'll make about:blank asynchronous, and only make initial browsing context 
creation synchronous (like it already is -- this doesn't involve actually 
loading about:blank using the regular "navigation" steps).

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