276767 - add window.navigate

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

some sites like
http://mere.berlingske.dk/events/event.asp?id=346
seems to use
window.navigate
to do navigation

perhaps we could add
window.navigate

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

For all people that don't know what this is, take a look at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/navigate.asp

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

note that fixing this would fix/invalidate tech evang bug 236841

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 279601 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So this is just an alias for setting window.location.  Unless this is pretty
widely used, I don't see why we should spend time and space implementing it...

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

there are only 14 tech evang bugs total that mention window.navigate and only 21
in the entire database. I don't remember this as a common error during my scans
last year.

Comment 6

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 288901 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Doesn't look like we're going to do this.