Re: [whatwg] Document referrer and script entry point from Bobby Holley on 2012-10-22 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from October 2012)

From: Bobby Holley <bobbyholley@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:32:39 +0200
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, public-script-coord@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAKBxTcL4QZA=r-pAh9PQQ0xB8Hazm65uz1M4ner6rZ9A2C4F7Q@mail.gmail.com>

Any WebKit folks want to weigh in on this one? Ian, what do you think from
a spec perspective?

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 10/9/12 9:45 AM, Bobby Holley wrote:
>
>> I'd like to change Gecko to implement the alternate behavior - that is
>> to say, making document.referrer refer to the script entry point at
>> the time of navigation.
>>
>
> Specifically for navigation via the "location" object.
>
> It's not quite clear to me what should happen for navigation via click()
> on an anchor or .submit() on a form, and those are a somewhat separate
> discussion from this one.
>
> -Boris
>

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