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    <bug>
          <bug_id>17631</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2012-06-28 15:09:35 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>&quot;The close() method on Window objects should... close the browsing context&quot;. What does it mean to &quot;close a browsing context&quot;? Are any event handlers triggered e.g. beforeunload?</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2012-09-23 23:25:40 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>WHATWG</product>
          <component>HTML</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>Other</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>other</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>FIXED</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#apis-for-creating-and-navigating-browsing-contexts-by-name</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P3</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>Unsorted</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter>contributor</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>ian</cc>
    
    <cc>mike</cc>
          
          <qa_contact>contributor</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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    <commentid>69492</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="">contributor</who>
    <bug_when>2012-06-28 15:09:35 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#apis-for-creating-and-navigating-browsing-contexts-by-name
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#apis-for-creating-and-navigating-browsing-contexts-by-name

Comment:
&quot;The close() method on Window objects should... close the browsing context&quot;.
What does it mean to &quot;close a browsing context&quot;? Are any event handlers
triggered e.g. beforeunload?

Posted from: 2001:4c28:a030:30:d46a:ff6b:b71c:7ab6
User agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; Edition Next; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.01</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>70985</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="">contributor</who>
    <bug_when>2012-07-18 17:52:11 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>This bug was cloned to create bug 18259 as part of operation convergence.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>74334</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="">contributor</who>
    <bug_when>2012-09-23 23:25:40 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Checked in as WHATWG revision r7393.
Check-in comment: Better define window.close() and how to close tabs.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7392&amp;to=7393</thetext>
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