1171409 - cross-frame links forget target when previously accesed url contains a framset and var name=""

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Mircea Lutic]

Attachment: cross-Frame-Href.zip

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150525141253

Steps to reproduce:

created a set of files that do the following:
index.htm contains a frameset with menu.htm on the left and "parts" on the right
menu.htm contains 3 links: part1.htm, part2.htm, part3.htm 
part1.htm, part2.htm are simple htm files
part3.htm contains a frameset with 2 frames AND a script with var name
see attached zip file



Actual results:


to reproduce:
1. open index.htm
2.clic part1 (all ok)
3.clic part2 (all ok)
4 clic part3 (all ok)
3.clic part2 again - it is opened in a new window :o


Expected results:


1. open index.htm
2.clic part1 (all ok)
3.clic part2 (all ok)
4 clic part3 (all ok)
3.clic part2 again - should open as above

Comment 1

[Mircea Lutic]

Attachment: the problem appears even witout framset (see part2B)

the problem is actualy with the var name="". It shows up even when the file is a regular html with body

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> the problem is actualy with the var name="".

That sets the window name, per spec.  So after that targeting the window by its old name will no longer work, since its name is now different.