Re: [XHR] Need to define the behavior when the Window the XHR is created from does not have an associated document

On 12/14/2012 09:46 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 12/14/12 2:29 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> Per Hixie the Document is associated with both the old and the new
>> Window. Meaning that XMLHttpRequest will function normally even though
>> XMLHttpRequest != window.XMLHttpRequest.
>
> I'm not sure it actually will; Olli had some concerns about event dispatch in the responseXML if it's tied to the old window, not the new one,
That concern is Gecko implementation detail.


  for
> example.  Not sure to what extent those are Gecko-implementation-specific.
>
> -Boris
>
> Note that in Gecko the old window is in fact unhooked from the document during open(), to prevent memory leaks; we _may_ be able to change that, but
> it's not clear.
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Received on Friday, 14 December 2012 19:53:58 UTC