191807 - window.name does not change when going to a different site

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Navid]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030110
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030110

Clicking on the "Instructors" link on the left-hand frame should open the link
in the right-hand frame.  This usually happens, but if you go to
http://www.tsn.ca first, and then go back to
http://courses.ece.utoronto.ca/ece451h1s then the behaviour changes, and the
link is opened up in the whole window.

This seems to be a problem because the right-hand frame on
courses.ece.utoronto.ca/ece451h1s is called "main"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to www.tsn.ca
2. Go to courses.ece.utoronto.ca/ece451h1s
3. Click on the "instructors" link on the left-hand frame

Actual Results:  
The link opens up in the whole window

Expected Results:  
The link should open up in the right-hand frame

Comment 1

[Ruslan Ismailov]

Correct. http://www.tsn.ca doing window.name="main", and "instructors" link use
target=main. So this link target whole window. 

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yeah, but I think we should be blowing that away when going to a different site....

Comment 3

[Ruslan Ismailov]

BTW, IE 6.0 have 100% same bug. What stantarts say about this case?

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

What about NS4.x?

Comment 5

[Navid]

Same behaviour on NS 4.x, but not in IE 5.0

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The standards say nothing. If we're interoperable with other browsers on the
market, then we're doing the right thing.