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Bug 13894 - window.open() doesn't check for trusted events the way HTMLAnchorElement.click() does. We should probably move the check into the "rules for choosing a browsing context" algorithm.
Summary: window.open() doesn't check for trusted events the way HTMLAnchorElement.clic...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: 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: 2011-08-24 23:15 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-04-15 19:04 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-08-24 23:15:18 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#noopener
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#noopener

Comment:
window.open() doesn't check for trusted events the way
HTMLAnchorElement.click() does. We should probably move the check into the
"rules for choosing a browsing context" algorithm.

Posted from: 2620:0:1000:137d:fa1e:dfff:fedd:ce8d by ian@hixie.ch
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.849.1 Safari/535.1
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-13 00:41:27 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 2 contributor 2011-10-13 00:41:43 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6679.
Check-in comment: window.open() should block popups too.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6678&to=6679
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-04-15 19:04:04 UTC 
Woops, forgot to fix <area> as well when fixing this. See bug 21654.