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Bug 23483 - When the Document is not associated with browsing context we should probably not instantiate the styling subsystem.
Summary: When the Document is not associated with browsing context we should probably ...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
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/...
Whiteboard: CSSOM
Keywords:
Depends on: 14703
Blocks:
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Reported: 2013-10-11 07:38 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-01-13 23:30 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-10-11 07:38:07 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#styling
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#styling
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Comment:
When the Document is not associated with browsing context we should probably
not instantiate the styling subsystem.

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Comment 1 Boris Zbarsky 2013-10-11 15:20:48 UTC 
What does this even mean, in spec terms?

Note that given .style you still need to be able to parse inline styles in the document and whatnot.
Comment 2 Boris Zbarsky 2013-10-11 15:34:17 UTC 
Ah, this is specifically about parsing stylesheets.  Yeah, we shouldn't do that.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-01-13 23:30:13 UTC 
This is moot, turns out.