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Bug 18716 - How is "created" defined? Say I call window.open specifying a target that already exists as a different browsing context, will the opener browsing context be the NEW browsing context that called window.open or the ORIGINAL browsing context?
Summary: How is "created" defined? Say I call window.open specifying a target that al...
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/...
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: 18717 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2012-08-28 14:34 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-01-25 23:45 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-08-28 14:34:56 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/browsers.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#auxiliary-browsing-contexts
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#auxiliary-browsing-contexts

Comment:
How is "created" defined?  Say I call window.open specifying a target that
already exists as a different browsing context, will the opener browsing
context be the NEW browsing context that called window.open or the ORIGINAL
browsing context?

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-12 18:06:08 UTC 
*** Bug 18717 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-01-25 23:45:19 UTC 
"created" has its dictionary definition, "brought into existence". By definition, if you use "a target that already exists" then you are not bringing it into existence and thus not creating it. This seems pretty unambiguous.