Subj : Re: [Q] Correct impl. of location.href with relative pathnames..
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.dom,netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Martin Honnen
Date : Sat Jul 24 2004 02:15 pm



t o b e wrote:


> When setting the location.href property of a frame from Javascript running
> within a document in another frame what should any relative URI's be
> resolved against ? The href of the frame that's being set or the href of the
> frame that's doing the setting ?


> I instinctively thought the former but whilst running our embedded browser
> through the W3 DOM-Test-Suite I've come across some code (setTestPage in
> testContainerController.html) that seems to suggest the latter case is
> actually the correct way to do it.

As far as I know the W3C DOM doesn't deal at all with the location 
object and its properties so I am surprised that there are tests for 
that object in the DOM test suite. I can't get through to www.w3.org at 
the moment so I can't check that.

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	Martin Honnen
	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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