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Bug 18259 - "The close() method on Window objects should... close the browsing context". What does it mean to "close a browsing context"? Are any event handlers triggered e.g. beforeunload?
Summary: "The close() method on Window objects should... close the browsing context". ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Silvia Pfeiffer
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 17:52 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-11-28 06:01 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 17:52:08 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 17631 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-06-28 15:09:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-06-28 15:09:35 +0000 
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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:
"The close() method on Window objects should... close the browsing context".
What does it mean to "close a browsing context"? 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
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Comment 1 Edward O'Connor 2012-10-12 23:35:48 UTC 
Silvia, this was fixed in WHATWG r7393.
Comment 2 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-10-14 11:52:54 UTC 
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-v2.html

Status: Accepted
Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/e2715e65f33538951d43fb44a7bc7faad466a0fe
Rationale: accepted WHATWG change r17631
Comment 3 Erika Doyle Navara 2012-11-27 22:43:35 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Change Description:
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/e2715e65f33538951d43fb44a7bc7faad466a0fe
> Rationale: accepted WHATWG change r17631

Whoops, looks like this was a copy paste error. Here it is again:

Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/568339113188319169bb1cf795c53146a34cbfdc

Rationale: accepted WHATWG change r7393
Comment 4 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-11-28 06:01:13 UTC 
Thanks!