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Bug 26565 - Browsing context name needs to be stored as part of history. If you navigate cross origin and it gets unset, it should be set to the original value if you go back. Otherwise window.name as implemented breaks.
Summary: Browsing context name needs to be stored as part of history. If you navigate ...
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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Reported: 2014-08-13 07:37 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-09-16 07:33 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-08-13 07:37:35 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/browsers.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#browsing-context-name
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#browsing-context-name
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
Browsing context name needs to be stored as part of history. If you navigate
cross origin and it gets unset, it should be set to the original value if you
go back. Otherwise window.name as implemented breaks.

Posted from: 46.127.136.57 by annevk@annevk.nl
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Comment 1 Anne 2014-08-14 06:45:54 UTC 
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444222 for context by the way.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-08-18 20:47:09 UTC 
I thought the spec already said this. If it doesn't, I'll make sure to fix it, cos yeah, that's obviously needed.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-09-15 22:48:46 UTC 
This seems to be what the spec already says. Am I missing something?
Comment 4 Anne 2014-09-16 07:33:58 UTC 
I was. Thanks.