140681 - window.open().document does not inherit base href

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

If I create a new document using window.open() with no parameters, the new
document should inherit my document's base href.  This causes relative links
break if I use DOM 2 to copy part of a document into a new window.

My "view scripts" bookmarklet turns <script src=> elements into <iframe>s in the
new document.  Since the src attribute is relative in many pages, this bug
prevented the script from working on those pages.  I worked around the problem
by by doing a document.open() immediately followed by a document.close() before
doing any DOM 2 stuff.  (http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html)

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

I also worked around this bug in the clone document bookmarklet.

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs.

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

If you have questions, please contact :mdaly.

Comment 5

[Anne (:annevk)]

This has now become "by design".