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Bug 23073 - Removal from the past names map should be based on the form-association changing, not removal from the Document
Summary: Removal from the past names map should be based on the form-association chang...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Blocks: 23395
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Reported: 2013-08-27 02:08 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-09-30 17:34 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-08-27 02:08:27 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-form-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-form-element
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
Removal from the past names map should be based on the form-association
changing, not removal from the Document

Posted from: 96.233.102.142 by bzbarsky@mit.edu
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Comment 1 Boris Zbarsky 2013-08-27 02:09:01 UTC 
That would mean that @form changes can also trigger such removal, which seems very desirable.  Gecko and WebKit are both planning to implement it that way.
Comment 2 Boris Zbarsky 2013-08-27 02:09:48 UTC 
Note, also, that it's possible to remove an element from the Document without changing its form-association by removing its ancestor <form> from the Document.  I believe in this situation the past names map should not change...
Comment 3 Kent Tamura 2013-08-27 02:24:46 UTC 
> Gecko and WebKit are both planning to implement it that way.

Blink will follow this too.
Comment 4 contributor 2013-09-13 23:18:41 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8185.
Check-in comment: Make the <form> past names map associations go away when the form owner changes, not when the element is removed from the document.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8184&to=8185