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Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working

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2011-12-01 15:19, Martin Honnen wrote:

> http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/html/test2011120101.html is an
> example, the iframe content is generated by a javascript: URL, works in
> IE 9, Firefox, Google, Opera. The link works in IE 9, Firefox, Opera but
> not in Chrome, but I don't get any error message so I am not sure
> whether that is some kind of security restriction.

I would expect javascript: URLs to behave differently depending on 
browser, in sufficiently complicated cases at least. There is no 
specification on the exact meaning and treatment of such URLs.

By the way, your test code shows, on one of my browsers,
"Today is Fri Dec 02 2011 11:08:04 GMT+0200 (Suomen normaaliaika)."
What's that odd parenthetic note there? I know what it means... but why 
does it appear in text in English? :-)
Implicit Date to string conversions aren't really suitable even for 
demos, as they may inadvertantly demonstrate the lack of proper 
localization in JavaScript and its implementations.

But returning to javascript: URLs, yesterday I stumbled across a bug 
(some key links not working at all on some modern browsers), which 
turned out to be caused by legacy code that uses an href attribute with 
javascript: URL _and_ target="_blank". Isolated to a simple case:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/js/target.html
On Firefox 8, the "link" opens a new tab with about:blank contents. With 
the target attribute removed,
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/js/targetless.html
it works as intended.

-- 
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-11-30 18:28 -0800
  Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2011-12-01 11:53 +0100
    Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Richard Cornford <Richard@litotes.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-01 04:29 -0800
    Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-01 12:37 +0000
      Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2011-12-01 14:02 +0100
        Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2011-12-01 14:19 +0100
          Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-12-02 11:31 +0200
            Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2011-12-02 15:43 +0100
              Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-12-02 19:57 +0200
    Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Richard Cornford <Richard@litotes.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-01 04:03 -0800
    Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-01 12:14 -0800
      Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Erwin Moller <Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_much@spamyourself.com> - 2011-12-02 10:01 +0100
        Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-02 12:35 -0800
          Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-02 20:39 +0000
            Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-02 13:56 -0800
              Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-02 23:40 +0000
              Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Dr J R Stockton <reply1148@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-03 19:13 +0000
            Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Jake Jarvis <pig_in_shoes@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-02 23:01 +0100
  Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2011-12-04 15:46 +0100
  Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working Bwig Zomberi <zomberiMAPSONNOSPAM@gmail.invalid> - 2011-12-06 11:41 +0530

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