183107 - this example works in IE, OmniWeb, iCab ---- but not Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[H H Ipolyi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

<FORM name=Dest>
<table border=0 width=30%><TH>
<INPUT type=button value=previous onClick='window.open(URL="d3.html","_top")'>
</TH><TH>
<INPUT type=button value=EXIT onClick='window.open(URL="d0.html","_top")'>
</TH><TH>
<INPUT type=button value=next onClick='window.open(URL="d5.html","_top")'>
</TH></TABLE>
</FORM>


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
nothing happens

Expected Results:  
bring up desired page

I don't know whether I'm doing something not supported, but since my code works
in the other browsers, I thought I'd report it.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The first arg to window.open() is just a url string.  You're doing an assignment
there.  The reason this works in other browsers is that the result of the
assignment is a string. The reason it fails in Mozilla is that assigning to
"URL" finds the the URL property on the document and assigns to document.URL,
which throws an exception, since document.URL is readonly (see the JS console).

I think all of that behavior is correct, but to DOM0 for confirmation.

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Invalid.