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Bug 6504 - description of what target attribute represents should not use term "browsing context"
Summary: description of what target attribute represents should not use term "browsing...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5: The Markup Language (editor: Michael(tm) Smith) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael[tm] Smith
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/p...
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Reported: 2009-01-30 05:32 UTC by Michael[tm] Smith
Modified: 2010-03-15 06:28 UTC (History)
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Description Michael[tm] Smith 2009-01-30 05:32:41 UTC
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2010-03-09 10:12:08 UTC 
See the original message that prompted me to raise this bug:

  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jan/0386.html

Regarding that, I have since removed almost all of the formalisms that we previously in the document. For the description of the browsing-context-or-keyword datatype, see:

  http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/datatypes.html#common.data.browsing-context-name-or-keyword

I also have since added a prose description of the concept of "browsing context":


  http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/terminology.html#context

  "A browsing context is an environment in which UAs present documents to users. A tab or window in a Web browser typically contains a browsing context, as does an iframe, or frame elements in a frameset."

That description is essentially verbatim from the HTML5 spec.