On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 12/7/10 5:10 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > Per spec, currently document.open() replaces the current page rather > > than allow navigation. > > I believe there are cases where that would cause us to break compat. > Note that neither IE nor Gecko does a replace load there, last I > checked. > > > I'm not sure how to allow navigation since the Document doesn't change > > but still can't be reused. > > What Gecko ends up doing is creating a new Document when navigating > history to or from a document.open() result.
I believe the spec now matches what you describe on this issue. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'