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Bug 11442 - The "list of the descendant browsing contexts" algorithm needs to include something for appending the child browsing context to the list - otherwise the recursion always generates empty lists.
Summary: The "list of the descendant browsing contexts" algorithm needs to include som...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-11-30 16:13 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:34 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-11-30 16:13:06 UTC
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/browsers.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#nested-browsing-contexts

Comment:
The "list of the descendant browsing contexts" algorithm needs to include
something for appending the child browsing context to the list - otherwise the
recursion always generates empty lists. 

Posted from: 74.125.60.1
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-01-10 23:16:57 UTC
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Um, yes. I was so eager to recurse that I forgot the point of the algorithm! Oops.
Comment 2 contributor 2011-01-10 23:17:11 UTC
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5759.
Check-in comment: Actually make the 'list of the descendant browsing contexts' contain anything. Oops.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5758&to=5759
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:34:57 UTC
mass-move component to LC1