21875 2013-04-30 12:23:59 +0000 open() doesn't always produce an insertion point, but write() assumes it does 2013-05-28 20:47:16 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#document.write() P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian bzbarsky ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 87001 0 contributor 2013-04-30 12:23:59 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/elements.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#document.write() Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#document.write() Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dom.html Comment: open() doesn't always produce an insertion point Posted from: 98.110.194.206 by bzbarsky@mit.edu User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130419 Firefox/23.0 87002 1 bzbarsky 2013-04-30 12:27:03 +0000 Specifically, consider this testcase: var newDocument = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument( '' ); newDocument.write( whatever ); In this case, I believe both the ignore-opens-during-unload counter and the ignore-opens-during-unload counter are 0, so step 3 of http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/elements.html#dom-document-write calls open(). Step 2 of http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/elements.html#dom-document-ope aborts the steps, since the document is not active. But write() makes no allowance for that, only for the user refusing for the document to be unloaded, and starts talking about insertion points, which is nonsensical in this case: there is no parser. 87032 2 ian 2013-04-30 18:17:07 +0000 Should document.write() just abort on non-active documents? document.open() does, it seems like an oversight that document.write() doesn't. 87035 3 bzbarsky 2013-04-30 18:26:49 +0000 That would make sense to me, yes. 88291 4 contributor 2013-05-28 20:47:16 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r7869. Check-in comment: Make document.write() a no-op on non-active documents. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7868&to=7869