42545 - Target option "_self" opens a new window

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect, P3)

Description

[Linda Baliman]

From Karl-Heinz Dahlmann, Ticket Online sidebar tab developer:

NS6 doesn't know the target option "_self" for displaying the link 
in the same frame. If you give the name of the frame instead of "_self" 
it works otherwise it opens a new window. 

That causes problems if you link content into to different pages 
(for example www.ticketonline.de and www.st-pauli-theater.de) 
and if the names of the frames are different. 
So if you display contents in different frame sets (exchanging contents 
with other sites) it doesn't work with NS6 any more.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

updating component and setting defualt owner

Comment 2

[Chris McAfee]

layout, clayton

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Frames, pollmann.  In what version of the browser was this bug seen?

Comment 4

[Eric Pollmann]

I think this is happening even in recent mozilla builds:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/uriloader/base/nsURILoader.cpp#509

We treat _self just like _blank.  I'm pretty sure this is wrong.  ;)

Comment 5

[Eric Pollmann]

Serves me right for opening my mouth before testing this bug in a recent build - 
this works fine.  :)

http://blueviper/frames/self.html

I'll attach the above test case momentarily...

Comment 6

[Eric Pollmann]

Attachment: selftarget.html

Comment 7

[Eric Pollmann]

Attachment: test case: self.html

Comment 8

[Eric Pollmann]

To verify that this is indeed working, first hook yourself up with a recent 
nightly build of Mozilla from here:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/

Next, after installing the build, with the new browser visit the above test 
cases.  selftarget.html is just a single simple document, and clicking on the 
link should load mozilla.org in the current window.  self.html is a frameset 
document with two frames.  Each of these frames is an instance of 
selftarget.html, so clicking on the link in either frame should update the 
document displayed in that frame to mozilla.org.

Comment 9

[Chris Petersen]

Marking works for me. Tested with the Sept 14th build.