93885 - javascript:open() in address field shouldn't care what the current page is

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

(Sorry, Browser-General people, I have no idea which component this should go in.)

Build: 2001080308, Mac OS 9.1

To reproduce:
1.  Make a basic test.xul file in your `Documents' folder (or equivalent for
    your system).
2.  Make a copy of the file in the `res' folder in your Mozilla installation.
3.  In Navigator, open a local HTML file (such as bookmarks.html).
4.  In Navigator's address field, type
    javascript:open("file:///Macintosh%20HD/Documents/test.xul", "",
    "width=200,height=200")
    (or the equivalent URL for your system) and press Enter. Close the window 
    that opens.
5.  In Navigator's address field, type
    javascript:open("resource://strres-test.xul", "", "width=200,height=200")
    and press Enter. Close the window that opens.6.  Now go to
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/>, or any other remote URL.
7.  Repeat step 4.
8.  Repeat step 5.

What should happen:
7.  The same window appears as appeared in step 4.
8.  The same window appears as appeared in step 5.

What actually happens:
7.  Nothing.
8.  Nothing.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Over to DOM. I bet js in the location bar runs in the current page's security
context... ccing mstoltz

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

This works as designed, typeing javascript:foo in the URL bar is equivalent to
executing the javascript 'foo' in the current page. WONTFIX.

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

> typeing javascript:foo in the URL bar is equivalent to executing the
> javascript 'foo' in the current page.

That's why I filed the bug. The function clearly has absolutely nothing to do 
with the current page, so it makes absolutely no sense for it to be pretending 
it is code in the current page. It doesn't even work when I don't have any 
pages open!

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> The function clearly has absolutely nothing to do with the current page

mpt, most uses of javascript: in the url bar are to debug the current page.... I
can see how we should consider doing something special for about:blank....
maybe....

Comment 5

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

javascript: URL's in the URL bar have everything to do with the current page,
that's just how it works, in mozilla, and in all other browsers. Try
javascript:alert(window.location.href) in any browser and you'll get the URL of
the current page.

WONTFIX, again.