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Bug 18717 - How is "created" defined? Say I call window.open specifying a target that already exists as a different browsing context, will the opener browsing context be the NEW browsing context that called window.open or the ORIGINAL browsing context?
Summary: How is "created" defined? Say I call window.open specifying a target that al...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 18716
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: 2012-08-28 14:35 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-12 18:06 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-08-28 14:35:08 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/browsers.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#auxiliary-browsing-contexts
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#auxiliary-browsing-contexts

Comment:
How is "created" defined?  Say I call window.open specifying a target that
already exists as a different browsing context, will the opener browsing
context be the NEW browsing context that called window.open or the ORIGINAL
browsing context?

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-12 18:06:08 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 18716 ***