Re: [MIX] 5.1 Does settings object restrict mixed content?

Given a document, it's not clear how to walk its ancestor chain without
referring to browsing contexts. I might very well be missing something: if
I'd like to check whether the document that's embedding me (or the document
that's embedding my parent) has some bit of state, how should I go about
doing it?

-mike

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> > > Sure, but why is /b relevant to /a in this example? They're unrelated,
> > > no?
> >
> > Yeah, but the browsing context is the same. The browsing context terms
> > such as browsing context container, nested browsing context, etc.
> > represents a sequence of documents whereas for some scenarios you just
> > want to look at a document and not its browsing context whose active
> > document might be something else.
> >
> > So e.g. if you have a browsing context that has two documents associated
> > with it. And the first of those documents has an nested browsing
> > context. And you want to make an assertion of sorts about that nested
> > browsing context's top-level browsing context, it may no longer have a
> > nested browsing context.
>
> Generally speaking we should be talking about the document, not the
> browsing context, sure.
>
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