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Bug 15049 - The description of opener doesn't say what the value is if any of the listed conditions do not hold. I think null is the correct value for windows with no opener, but the IDL lists its type as WindowProxy instead of WindowProxy?, which would seem to indic
Summary: The description of opener doesn't say what the value is if any of the listed ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-12-03 00:19 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:47 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-12-03 00:19:14 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/browsers.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#dom-opener
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#dom-opener

Comment:
The description of opener doesn't say what the value is if any of the listed
conditions do not hold. I think null is the correct value for windows with no
opener, but the IDL lists its type as WindowProxy instead of WindowProxy?,
which would seem to indicate that this property can never be null. 

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-12-07 23:58:12 UTC 
Oops!
Comment 2 contributor 2012-01-31 21:15:47 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6953.
Check-in comment: window.opener should return null in certain cases
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6952&to=6953