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Bug 19519 - [HTML] [Fetching] The spec needs to clarify that resources originating from elements whose owner documents lack a browsing context won't fetch
Summary: [HTML] [Fetching] The spec needs to clarify that resources originating from e...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Silvia Pfeiffer
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2012-10-12 19:25 UTC by Rafael Weinstein
Modified: 2012-10-29 13:19 UTC (History)
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Description Rafael Weinstein 2012-10-12 19:25:33 UTC 
e.g.

doc = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument('');
doc.createElement('img').src = 'foo'; // won't cause a fetch of 'foo'.

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The behavior is consistent across webkit, gecko and IE (as of IE10).

For reference, the whatwg spec was recently updated with this language:

http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7461&to=7462
Comment 1 Edward O'Connor 2012-10-12 21:23:02 UTC 
Silvia, this looks like one for your merge-fu. :)
Comment 2 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-10-29 13:19:07 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/abec0b3f9ce5bf55274e20280113797a21814380

Rationale: Patch from WHATWG accepted