610001 - Need better base URI for about:blank in many cases

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

When calling window.open(), it looks like the resulting document ends up with an about:blank URI that itself as the base URI.  Blake, when we createAboutBlankContentViewer in SetOpenerScriptPrincipal, ideally we'd pass in a better base URI...  Note that the caller of SetOpenerScriptPrincipal already has to deal with base URIs, so could pass in the right one.

Not something to worry about until after 2.0.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Also, just opening a new tab gives about:blank with browser.xul as the base URI.  We should, imo, give that about:blank as the base URI.

Comment 2

[Marion Daly [:mdaly]]

Hi Boris, Is this still an issue? If so, are you still actively working on this? If not, let's unassign you from this.

Also, is this still a priority?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Maybe we should just wontfix this...  I think there is currently interop for the window.open() case, at least?

But not https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/421