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Bug 24728 - Clarify what window.name returns when the browsing context name is not set
Summary: Clarify what window.name returns when the browsing context name is not set
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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Reported: 2014-02-19 09:46 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-02-20 22:18 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-02-19 09:46:14 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/browsers.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#dom-name
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#dom-name
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
Clarify what window.name returns when the browsing context name is not set

Posted from: 90.230.218.37 by simonp@opera.com
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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-02-20 20:30:08 UTC 
Looks like it should return the empty string.
Comment 2 contributor 2014-02-20 22:18:49 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8483.
Check-in comment: window.name should be the empty string when the name isn't set.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8482&to=8483