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Bug 15403 - the definition of ancestor excludes direct ancestors (A being the parent of B). A browsing context A is an ancestor of browsing context B if browsing context A is the parent browsing context of browsing context B, or if there exists a browsing context A'
Summary: the definition of ancestor excludes direct ancestors (A being the parent of B...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-01-03 15:56 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:42 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-01-03 15:56:16 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#nested-browsing-contexts
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#nested-browsing-contexts

Comment:
the definition of ancestor excludes direct ancestors (A being the parent of
B).  A browsing context A is an ancestor of browsing context B if browsing
context A is the parent browsing context of browsing context B, or if there
exists a browsing context A' that is a child browsing context of A and that is
itself an ancestor of child browsing context B.

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