228494 - window.parent " When a window is loaded in a frameset, its parent is . "

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Documentation Graveyard :: Web Developer, defect)

Description

[timeless]

window.parent
When a window is loaded in a frameset, its parent is .

is ... what?

here's what i expect:
javascript:window.parent==window
true
data:text/html,<frameset><frame src="javascript:window.parent==window">
false

Comment 1

[Jaroslav Zaruba]

Actually I believe that (window.parent == window) should ALWAYS be evaluate to
FALSE. How parent of the window and the window itself can ever be the same
objects? (No matter where the expression is evaluated.)

But Mozilla/Gecko/Firefox (or whatever) evaluates this expression to TRUE when a
window has no parent (which I believe is bug, and that's how I came to this
particular bug-report :o) ...

May be I'm wrong but I think this bug-report should be marked as INVALID.

have a nice day
  Yaroukh

Comment 2

[timeless]

[e-mail]: you happen to be wrong, try it in ie.

Comment 3

[Jaroslav Zaruba]

(In reply to comment #2)
> [e-mail]: you happen to be wrong, try it in ie.

If you are talking about the fact that also MSIE evaluates that comparation to
TRUE, than that's what I've noted in my bug-report too; still I believe it's not
proper behaqviour.

Comment 4

[Jaroslav Zaruba]

here's the bug-report:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298998

If you could explain to why is it that non-frame window has itself as a parent
(in "parent" property) I would be grateful.
(I mean it; I don't think of myself as a programmer-guru.)

thanks in advance
have a nice day
  Yaroukh

Comment 5

[Jaroslav Zaruba]

http://mozref.com/reference/objects/Window#parent
(now I would only like to know Why? :o)

Comment 6

[Yuh-Ruey Chen]

fixed: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.parent