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Bug 12282 - If the given browsing context name is _parent, then the chosen browsing context must be the parent browsing context of the current one, unless there isn't one, in which case the chosen browsing context must be the current browsing context.
Summary: If the given browsing context name is _parent, then the chosen browsing conte...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-03-10 13:18 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:05 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-03-10 13:18:07 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/browsers.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#browsing-context-names

Comment:
If the given browsing context name is _parent, then the chosen browsing
context must be the parent browsing context of the current one, unless there
isn't one, in which case the chosen browsing context must be the current
browsing context.

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User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-05-06 19:34:43 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I don't understand. Could you elaborate?
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:05:17 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1