Re: Definition of "visit" (ACTION-303)

Er, yeah ...

  http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/browsers.html#browsing-context

and while that definition might be concrete if one assumes
that all user agents are browsers with a session history, it
doesn't work well for past visits (long after the session
history is removed) and any hypertext format that isn't HTML.

Perhaps it would me more useful to just expand the text
without the HTML5 assumptions.

....Roy


On Oct 24, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) wrote:

> Mike,
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> First off it's a bit political because there's the W3C version of the document and the WHATWG version of the document, and which is authoritative depends largely upon whom you ask (even different browsers view different versions of the document as authoritative). Luckily these definitions seem to be in both versions of the document and were there from before the fracture where the W3C version ossified.
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> Browsing context is defined in Section 5.1 ("Browsing contexts") of the W3C doc. session history, document, address etc are all linked terms in that section.
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> -Ian
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> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Mike O'Neill <michael.oneill@baycloud.com> wrote:
> Ian,
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> That sounds fine to me, but I can’t find the definition in the Uri you give. What is the paragraph?
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> Mike
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> From: Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) [mailto:ifette@google.com] 
> Sent: 24 October 2012 18:52
> To: public-tracking@w3.org Group WG
> Subject: Definition of "visit" (ACTION-303)
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> A number of places in the document have a notion of "the site a user is visiting" (largely in relation to determining whether something is a first or third party). I believe it's important for us to have a concrete, unambiguous definition of this.
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> What I propose is to use the definition from the HTML spec. (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-page.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=feed#windows)
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> A user "visits" a given URI when the user takes action (such as typing that URI into an address bar, clicking a link to that URI on another website, or clicking a link to that URI from an external program that opens a web user agent) that results in a _browsing context_ whose _session history_ contains a _Document_ with an _address_ matching the given URI.
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> This is about as concrete and unambiguous as I can make it. By definition, this also resolves ACTION-304 in that the user would "visit" any redirects that were involved in "visit"ing anything else.
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