Re: [powerful-features] Talking about the "incumbent settings object" of a document makes no sense

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> https://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/powerfulfeatures/#settings-secure
> step 2.2.2 talks about "ancestor’s incumbent settings object" where
> "ancestor" is a document.  But "incumbent settings object" is a property of
> the JS callstack, not of a document.
>
> I assume that what you mean here is the "relevant settings object" of the
> document's global or something along those lines?


Hrm. Yes. I think that is what I mean. Does
https://github.com/w3c/webappsec/commit/a9c195b4e783b82df93f1415369d9e9c9afd7138
look reasonable?


> But mail coming up about how this whole part of the algorithm is not
> necessarily sensical...


Thanks again for the feedback. I appreciate it!

-mike

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