- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 00:03:52 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 7/12/13 3:39 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > That wasn't the intent. I've tried to clarify it. > > Hmm. It might help to make it clearer in > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/history.html#navigate > that "new resource" does not mean "URL". Maybe have some explicit thing > that represents the resource being navigated to (which might, for > example, consist of a (url, srcdoc data) pair or something along those > lines)? Yeah... I've thought about doing something like this several times (this is by far not the only part of the spec with this issue -- the word "resource" is in the spec over a thousand times). Fundamentally I'm not really sure what to do to define "resource" in a useful way here and elsewhere. I've added a note before the navigation algorithm, though. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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