Re: [whatwg] Document referrer and script entry point

2012-10-22 Thread Bobby Holley
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 bzbar...@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

Re: [whatwg] Document referrer and script entry point

2012-10-22 Thread Adam Barth
To answer these questions, you need to reverse engineer the behavior of various user agents, compare them, and then pick a consensus behavior that ideally is both interoperable between user agents and compatible with existing content. I'm happy to change WebKit to such a consensus behavior, but I

Re: [whatwg] Document referrer and script entry point

2012-10-22 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 10/22/12 1:38 PM, Adam Barth wrote: To answer these questions, you need to reverse engineer the behavior of various user agents, compare them Bobby did that already, in the first mail in this thread. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-script-coord/2012OctDec/0014.html in case

[whatwg] Document referrer and script entry point

2012-10-09 Thread Bobby Holley
The spec says the following about Document.referrer: The referrer attribute must return either the address of the active document of the source browsing context at the time the navigation was started (that is, the page which navigated the browsing context to the current document) (3.1.3). This