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[whatwg] location.reload() on document.open()ed documents

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:39:17 -0400
Message-ID: <4BB299B5.3040900@mit.edu>
On 3/30/10 10:38 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> This makes me wonder: If the two engines with the largest market
> share both take steps to enable document.open()ed docs to be
> reloaded, is the behavior needed for optimal Web compatibility?

At one point, yes.  I don't recall many bug reports about this aspect of 
things recently, but that may be because Gecko now has the "do something 
sane on reload in the simple cases" behavior.

I do feel pretty strongly that reload() doing something different from 
the browser's reload UI is ... very odd.

-Boris
Received on Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:39:17 UTC

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