13894 2011-08-24 23:15:18 +0000 window.open() doesn't check for trusted events the way HTMLAnchorElement.click() does. We should probably move the check into the "rules for choosing a browsing context" algorithm. 2013-04-15 19:04:04 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#noopener P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 55783 0 contributor 2011-08-24 23:15:18 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#noopener Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#noopener Comment: window.open() doesn't check for trusted events the way HTMLAnchorElement.click() does. We should probably move the check into the "rules for choosing a browsing context" algorithm. Posted from: 2620:0:1000:137d:fa1e:dfff:fedd:ce8d by ian@hixie.ch User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.849.1 Safari/535.1 58168 1 ian 2011-10-13 00:41:27 +0000 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: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 58169 2 contributor 2011-10-13 00:41:43 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r6679. Check-in comment: window.open() should block popups too. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6678&to=6679 86226 3 ian 2013-04-15 19:04:04 +0000 Woops, forgot to fix <area> as well when fixing this. See bug 21654.