On 10/25/13 6:47 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
Dunno about restructuring it exactly, but I've done the next best thing, which is to add ample non-normative text explaining it.
Yep. The new text helps a lot, thanks!
Well, at the end of the day it's "just" a string comparison.
Sort of. _Changing_ the src attr to about:blank for an iframe that is already in the DOM should presumably always do a navigation to the new document. I guess the string compare would be in the code that runs when an iframe is inserted into the DOM; that might work.
The question is whether it matters, and if doing so makes sense.
Agreed.
The advantage of the current model is that it's nice and easy to understand: if there's a src="" attribute, then it gets loaded, and therefore it replaces the document that was there before it (though the Window object is maintained if it's same-origin), but if there's no attribute, nothing happens except the fake 'load' event being fired.
I'd be interested in what consumers of this API think here... -Boris
