634566 - Incorrectly follows last meta refresh directive

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P5)

Description

[Dannii]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13

The HTML5 spec 4.2.5.3 states that if a meta refresh directive has already been correctly processed then any further meta refresh directives should be ignored. Firefox however follows the last one in the page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Test case http://jsfiddle.net/J58rd/
Actual Results:  
The page redirects to second.html

Expected Results:  
It should redirect to first.html

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

As far as I can tell from the spec, "processed" includes coming due.  If that's not the intent, then the spec needs rephrasing.  But in this case the second <meta> is processed before the first one has come due, so also goes through the steps in 4.2.5.3.

It might be worth posting to whatwg for a clarification here, I guess.

Comment 2

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=3 years untouched DOM/Storage bug's priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.