Ian Hickson wrote:
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Gavin Sharp wrote:
It appears this behavior was explicitly chosen in Mozilla, in bug 190561
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190561). I think the
arguments given in that bug might merit reconsideration; detection of
image existence is currently possible by other means
How, exactly?
and I'm not sure
how much weight "the Rhino Book" should have in influencing current DOM
specs.
None whatsoever, in my opinion.
My findings match yours. I have left the spec as is, for compatibility
with IE, and because it seems the most logical.
It seems like a privacy leak to me, in the case of cross-site images.
-Boris
