- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:32:24 -0500
On 2/2/11 3:22 PM, Michael Nordman wrote: > That does sound like a bug? I'd be curious to know what the reasoning > was for the existing sequence of steps. From what I can tell, current browser behavior. > Step 10 looks out of place too... > > "10. If the new resource is to be handled using a mechanism that does > not affect the browsing context, e.g. ignoring the navigation request > altogether because the specified scheme is not one of the supported > protocols, then abort these steps and proceed with that mechanism > instead." > > Aborting the active document sounds like an undesirable side affect on > the browsing context for mailto links. I suspect that again this is current browser behavior. Note that in some cases mailto: links will load a web page (and thus abort the document they were in). So it may be worthwhile to have them always abort it, for consistency. -Boris
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