Bug 13636

Summary: <OBJECT> tags seem mistakenly included in the document's applet collection
Product: WebKit Reporter: Brady Eidson <beidson@apple.com>
Component: Page LoadingAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned@lists.webkit.org>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal Keywords: InRadar
Priority: P2    
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: Mac OS X 10.4   
URL: http://homestarrunner.com
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 13634    

Description From 2007-05-09 00:49:42 PST 
Both in Safari 2.0 and ToT, it seems OBJECT tags were incorrectly included in a page's applet collection.  This prevented (and continues to prevent) back/forward caching of certain pages.

Visit the above url in Safari/ToT WebKit and in Firefox
run "javascript:alert(document.applets[0].outerHTML);" from the location field

Firefox has 0, Safari/ToT have 1 - view the page source to see the big glaring OBJECT

Since Firefox correctly reports 0, it's hard to believe we ever did this for compatibility with FFX - however, I have not tried WinIE
------- Comment #1 From 2007-05-09 00:51:35 PST ------- 
Correction - since FFX doesn't support outerhtml, amend the javascript to be "javascript:alert(document.applets[0]);"

It gives you back an undefined collection, whereas Safari hands back a collection (with 1 member)
------- Comment #2 From 2007-05-09 00:52:48 PST ------- 
ummm check that - I meant a null ELEMENT, and Safari gives back an HTMLObjectElement
------- Comment #3 From 2007-05-09 01:15:25 PST ------- 
http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/12250 might be of interest
------- Comment #4 From 2007-05-09 10:07:56 PST ------- 
<rdar://problem/5190816>
------- Comment #5 From 2007-05-10 02:18:08 PST ------- 
Landed in r21359
------- Comment #6 From 2007-05-10 02:21:02 PST ------- 
Here is a link to the change:
http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/21359