Re: [dom] Need to describe the interaction of adoptNode with prototype chains

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:39 AM, David Bruant <bruant.d@gmail.com> wrote:

> "Replace the Document's singleton objects with new instances of those
> objects. (This includes in particular the Window, Location, History,
> ApplicationCache, and Navigator, objects, the various BarProp objects, the
> two Storage objects, the various HTMLCollection objects, and objects
> defined by other specifications, like Selection and the document's
> UndoManager. It also includes all the Web IDL prototypes in the JavaScript
> binding, including the Document object's prototype.)"
>
> I see even Object.prototype doesn't survive in Gecko.
> What does observably survive to document.open?
>

The document. This is observable in terms of identity, and in terms of the
old nodes still treating that document as their owner, despite having been
removed from the DOM.


> Could it be possible to pretend that document.open is like a navigation
> instead of the complicated algorithm removing everything?
>

Given the above, I think this would require seriously extending the
definition of navigation. In particular, the old scope is toast, since it
doesn't have a document anymore.

bholley