134775 - Screen does not update after calling Window.location when the HTML has identical schema

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

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

Description

[Dominic Chambers]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

If a window that has just loaded is set to a new location (Window.location)
without any timeout period, and if the schema (tags and attribute names) of the
new document is identical to the schema of the existing document, then the new
document will not be rendered.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I have a number of test cases that you can use to reproduce this bug. Will
attach later.

1. Create an HTML document with an onload handler that immediately reloads
itself in favour of another document with identical schema.

Actual Results:  The old page was not updated.

Expected Results:  The newly requested page should have been rendered.

Comment 1

[Dominic Chambers]

Attachment: Reproduction Scripts

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: file #1

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: file #2

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Frameset testcase. Load this. Will alert 10 times.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Frameset testcase. Load this. Will alert 10 times.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I see identical behavior both with local files and with the testcase I attached.
 The file _does_ change, but takes a while to do it (wait for about 5 seconds
after each alert to see this).  Linux build 2002-04-12-21 here.

Comment 7

[Dominic Chambers]

I have just rechecked the test on Windows build 2002031104 (0.99) and it never
updates no matter how long I leave it.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Dominic, just checking -- you see that with the testcase I attached to this bug 
as well?

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Email from Dominic:

Yes, I used the test case you posted on Bugzilla.
 

Comment 10

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 11

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this still an issue in current builds?  I still cannot reproduce this...

Comment 12

[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.