8826 2010-01-27 10:24:26 +0000 about:blank should use standards mode 2010-10-04 13:56:06 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified PC All RESOLVED NEEDSINFO P2 normal --- 1 zcorpan ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 31271 0 zcorpan 2010-01-27 10:24:26 +0000 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. 31942 1 ian 2010-02-14 03:50:28 +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: 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...