- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:53:48 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@chromium.org>, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>
On 10/25/13 6:47 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > Dunno about restructuring it exactly, but I've done the next best thing, > which is to add ample non-normative text explaining it. Yep. The new text helps a lot, thanks! > Well, at the end of the day it's "just" a string comparison. Sort of. _Changing_ the src attr to about:blank for an iframe that is already in the DOM should presumably always do a navigation to the new document. I guess the string compare would be in the code that runs when an iframe is inserted into the DOM; that might work. > The question is whether it matters, and if doing so makes sense. Agreed. > The advantage of the current model is that it's nice and easy > to understand: if there's a src="" attribute, then it gets loaded, and > therefore it replaces the document that was there before it (though the > Window object is maintained if it's same-origin), but if there's no > attribute, nothing happens except the fake 'load' event being fired. I'd be interested in what consumers of this API think here... -Boris
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