16727 2008-01-03 22:24:40 -0800 Different frame navigation policy in various browsers. 2008-07-28 14:08:19 -0700 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit Frames 528+ (Nightly build) All All RESOLVED FIXED P2 Normal --- 0 yuzhu.shen webkit-unassigned abarth bdakin collinj sam webkit yuzhu.shen oldest_to_newest 66173 0 yuzhu.shen 2008-01-03 22:24:40 -0800 According to the policy discussed in bug 15936, I've created a scenario in which various browsers act differently. Assume that the following files are located at http://aaa.bbb.com/ Note: If you want to try out this example, change the value of document.domain accordingly in these files! It should be a suffix of the real domain in which these files reside. ====================================  <html> <head> <title></title> <script language="javascript">document.domain='bbb.com';</script> </head> <frameset name="main" cols="503,*"> <frame name="left" src="left.htm" /> <frame name="right" src="right.htm" /> </frameset> </html> ================================  <html> <head> <title></title> <base target='right'> </head> <body> <a href='helloWorld.htm'>HelloWorld</a> </body> </html> =================================  <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <script language="javascript">document.domain='bbb.com';</script> </body> </html> =================================  <html> <body> <h1>Hello World!</h1> </body> </html> ================================= Open navigation.htm, and then click the "HelloWorld" link: IE7: will open the link in a new tab instead of the target frame. IE6, Firefox2/3, Safari 3.0.3: will open the link in the target frame. Current WebKit: will do nothing. This problem affects a popular forum in China: http://dzh.mop.com In this forum, if you click a link in the left panel, current WebKit will not open the link. (Due to some other reasons, IE7 works fine with this site.) 66177 1 collinj 2008-01-03 22:49:44 -0800 When the browser's frame navigation policy wants to prevent a frame from being navigated, the most user-friendly behavior is to open a new window, as in IE7. I think the patch for bug 16522 will provide this behavior. 66181 2 yuzhu.shen 2008-01-03 23:31:39 -0800 (In reply to comment #1) > When the browser's frame navigation policy wants to prevent a frame from being > navigated, the most user-friendly behavior is to open a new window, as in IE7. > I think the patch for bug 16522 will provide this behavior. > I have no right to access bug 16522. Has the patch been submitted into the WebKit code base? I compiled WebKit 2 or 3 hours ago, and ran safari with it. And it did exactly what I described in previous post. 66242 3 abarth 2008-01-04 18:26:48 -0800 I tried using http://dzh.mop.com in IE7. Clicking on links in the left-hand frame opens a new tab with the content. WebKit should have the same behavior after the patch for Bug 16522 lands. > I have no right to access bug 16522. Has the patch been submitted into the > WebKit code base? The patch has not been committed yet, but hopefully it will be soon. I don't have authorization to add you to the bug, but it's a bug about this and one other issue with frame navigation. If you'd like the links to open in the right-hand frame instead of in new tabs in IE7 (and future-Safari), you can put the left-hand frame in the same origin as either the top or right-hand frame (or both). The simplest way to do this is to set document.domain = "mop.com" in the left-hand frame. 66847 4 collinj 2008-01-10 17:13:07 -0800 The behavior in WebKit (as of r29380) now matches the IE7 behavior. Clicking links in the left frame now causes a new window to be opened. 87217 5 webkit 2008-07-28 14:08:19 -0700 After testing the reported issue I can report that WebKit, Firefox 3 and IE7 matches the same behavior - they open links in new tab/window. Only Opera 9.5 behaves differently, but I think they changes his behavior in a future. I think we can close the report now since three major browsers behave identically now.