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Bug 12735 - window.open's replace parameter doesn't seem to be implemented in at least Gecko and WebKit
Summary: window.open's replace parameter doesn't seem to be implemented in at least Ge...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: contributor
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Blocks: 13030
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Reported: 2011-05-24 08:46 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-12-02 18:04 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-05-24 08:46:28 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/browsers.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-window-object

Comment:
window.open's replace parameter doesn't seem to be implemented in at least
Gecko and WebKit

Posted from: 91.181.64.45 by ms2ger@gmail.com
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110422 Firefox/6.0a1
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:05:33 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-12 19:50:31 UTC 
Works in IE.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-12-02 18:04:45 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I've left it. It seems to have sane use cases (e.g. if you're using the popup as a help window, so that the user doesn't go "back" to a now-irrelevant topic). Consider it a new feature.