Closed Bug 635194 Opened 14 years ago Closed 13 years ago

body.background should not be resolved according to the HTML spec

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

defect
Not set
normal

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VERIFIED FIXED
mozilla7

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(Reporter: zcorpan, Assigned: Ms2ger)

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Details

(Keywords: dev-doc-complete)

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User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8; U; en) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110216 Firefox/4.0b12pre Firefox resolves body.background. HTML says it should not be resolved. "The background IDL attribute of the body element must reflect the element's background content attribute. (The background content is not defined to contain a URL, despite rules regarding its handling in the rendering section above.)" http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/obsolete.html#dom-body-background IE and WebKit match the spec. Opera has had both behaviors without noticing Web compat problems. Opera recently changed to resolve like Firefox, however we don't want to change back until we're certain that the spec will stay as is, which means we will wait until this bug is fixed in Firefox. If you find a Web compat problem, that would be a good reason to change the spec. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use <body background=foo> 2. Evaluate document.body.background 3. Actual Results: body.background is resolved. Expected Results: body.background should not be resolved.
Component: DOM → DOM: Core & HTML
OS: Mac OS X → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Assignee: nobody → Ms2ger
Status: UNCONFIRMED → ASSIGNED
Ever confirmed: true
I think the main reason we resolve it is that DOM 2 HTML says to do so. And we've done this since about 2003, fwiw... It's simple enough to change; the only question is the compat one. Fwiw, I would guess compat issues are more likely to arise when going from resolving to non-resolving than the other direction.
Attached patch Patch v1Splinter Review
I don't care much either way, but might as well post a patch.
Attachment #525648 - Flags: review?(bzbarsky)
Comment on attachment 525648 [details] [diff] [review] Patch v1 Sure.
Attachment #525648 - Flags: review?(bzbarsky) → review+
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Keywords: dev-doc-needed
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla7
As visible here: https://tbpl.mozilla.org/php/getParsedLog.php?id=6360833&full=1 'dom/tests/mochitest/dom-level2-html/test_HTMLBodyElement02.html' has passed: 132 INFO TEST-START | /tests/dom/tests/mochitest/dom-level2-html/test_HTMLBodyElement02.html before 491520, after 487424, break 00000000 before 491520, after 487424, break 00000000 before 491520, after 487424, break 00000000 133 INFO TEST-PASS | Asize 134 INFO TEST-PASS | Asize 135 INFO TEST-PASS | backgroundLink 136 INFO TEST-END | /tests/dom/tests/mochitest/dom-level2-html/test_HTMLBodyElement02.html | finished in 126ms
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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