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Bug 8826 - about:blank should use standards mode
Summary: about:blank should use standards mode
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2010-01-27 10:24 UTC by Simon Pieters
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:56 UTC (History)
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Description Simon Pieters 2010-01-27 10:24:26 UTC 
about:blank in Opera uses standards mode. It's quirks mode in other browsers. It appears it's not a Web compat problem to use standards mode. Using standards mode is nicer. Please specify about:blank to use standards mode.
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-14 03:50:28 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Are there any other user agents willing to make this change? I'd rather not move away from interoperably implemented states towards single-browser states without the other browsers changing first...