1371027 - Add test to ensure changing the name attribute of a frame propagates to the docshell

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Robin Steuber (they/them) [:bytesized]]

Changing the name attribute of a frame should be propagated to the docshell [1], even if the name set is the same name that was already set. This is the current behavior, but there are no tests to ensure that the behavior remains this way.

This should be testable as a web platform test, since it's a spec issue. Though we should double-check what the spec says here, exactly, and maybe what other browsers do.

[1] http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/20963d7269b1b14d455f47bc0260d0653015bf84/dom/html/nsGenericHTMLFrameElement.cpp#322-330

Comment 1

[Robin Steuber (they/them) [:bytesized]]

Although it appears that our behavior matches the spec, no other major browser actually propagates frame name attribute changes that occur after browsing construct creation. For this reason, I will not be adding a web platform test to check for this.

It may even make more sense for us to match the behavior of other browsers and push for a spec change to match.