319713 - document.close handled from an external script, is mildly incorrect

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

This is a true edge case that came from bug 319123. The basic problem is the construct:

// Document 1
document.write("<script src='document2.js'></script>Foo!");

// document2.js
document.close()

Before my fix for bug 319123, we used to not really respect the close() call and actually leak the parser and all of the related stuff. Now, we terminate the parser, but that means that we lose the "Foo!". IE seems to only respect the document.close after the document.write is done (i.e., a second document.write() after the one that closes the document actually starts a new document). I'm not sure what IE does with other <script>s after the document.close, though.

Comment 1

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

The fix in bug 321781 will cover this, I think.

Comment 2

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

This should now behave the same as IE. Please reopen if not.