On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@iki.fi> wrote: > On Feb 2, 2011, at 03:07, Ian Hickson wrote: > >> I suppose we could make it so that scripts get neutered when the document >> that they were first associated with gets unloaded. Would that work? > > We did something different. > >> Proposal #1: > > Proposal #4 (what Gecko now does): > > * If at the time when the parser triggers the 'run' algorithm, the owner > document of the script is not the same document whose active parser the > parser is, set the 'already executed' flag and abort the steps. > > * If at the time of a script becoming available for evaluation the owner > document of the script is not the same document that was the owner document > at the time of the 'run' algorithm, don't evaluate the script. > > See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592366
Sorry for the delayed response. I don't recall off-hand what the spec currently says, but any of these options sound fine. Of (1), (2), and (4), I have a slight preference for (4) because then we don't need to notify all the script elements when a document gets unloaded. Adam
