464532 - window.self must be readonly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Danil Ivanov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3 XPCOMViewer/1.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3 XPCOMViewer/1.0a1

<script>
try {
  window.self = 1;
} catch(e) {}//IE error
alert([window.self == window, typeof(window.self)])
</script>

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081105 Minefield/3.1b2pre
  false, number
Safari Version 3.1.2 (5525.20.1)
  false, number
Opera 9.62 build 5256
  true, object
IE 7.0.5730.13
  (catched error) true, object

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.js: window.self = 1; alert(window.self == window)
Actual Results:  
false

Expected Results:  
1. Error: setting a property that has only a getter
2. true

Comment 1

[Daniel.S]

HTML5 says window.self should be readonly and return window.

Comment 2

[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 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

It's also marked [Replaceable], so not quite readonly.