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Bug 9042 - In neither section 4.2.1 or 4.8.2 is the reason for leaving out the title in an iframe srcdoc clarified. Is this because it's inherited from the parent? Because it's irrelevant? What does document.title return in this case?
Summary: In neither section 4.2.1 or 4.8.2 is the reason for leaving out the title in ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-02-17 10:31 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:57 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-02-17 10:31:14 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-head-element-0

Comment:
In neither section 4.2.1 or 4.8.2 is the reason for leaving out the title in
an iframe srcdoc clarified. Is this because it's inherited from the parent?
Because it's irrelevant? What does document.title return in this case?

Posted from: 76.126.116.8 by wycats@gmail.com
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-23 10:43:05 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: It's basically irrelevant, yeah... to the user, the <iframe> in this case doesn't really provide another document, it's just part of the parent document. It's not so much that the title inherits, so much as that the question of the title isn't really interesting in this case.

I'm not really sure how to express this in the spec's tone... if you think it'd be useful information in the spec, do you have any suggestions for how to phrase it?

(document.title returns the empty string, that's defined in the section on document.title, as for any document without a title element)