95801 - Frame loses its name after a page loads with javascript

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[mozilla]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010707
BuildID:    2001062815

After loading a page into a frame that contains javascript code, the frame name
either changes or is forgotten as subsequent directions at that frame cause a
new window to open instead of going to the frame.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load http://morons.org/news/
2. Click on any of the first 8 links; none have javascript and all load up fine
in the right frame
3. Click on "Alabama". It loads in the right frame and contains javascript.
4. Click on "Akron". A new window opens.

Actual Results:  New window opens containing the desired content rather than the
right frame.

Expected Results:  Content displayed in right frame.

This might be related to or the same as bug 70173.  Turning javascript off
alleviates the problem completely.  Same results happen under both SunOS and Win2k.

Comment 1

[Andy Edmonds]

[worksforme] in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4+)
Gecko/20010927.  Does not work in 9.4.  

Comment 2

[Olivier Cahagne]

confirming on Win2k with build 2001100503.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The JS in question (in http://www.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?o=portal&feed=230) is:

window.name = 'newsportal';

Over to DOM0 for now.  jst, should setting window.name change the name that the
URI targeter sees?

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

I would say yes, what does IE do?

Comment 5

[Sterling Bates]

IE does exactly the same thing Mozilla does.

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Pushing out to mozilla1.1.

Comment 7

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is invalid.  All browsers currently on the market interoperably handle the
setting of window.name to mean that the name of the window as seen by "target"
attributes is changed, which is exactly what we're doing.