Bug 15647

Summary: HEAD elements are not automatically generated in empty documents.
Product: WebKit Reporter: Kevin Decker <kdecker>
Component: DOMAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: ap, webkit
Priority: P2 Keywords: HasReduction
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: OS X 10.5   
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Kevin Decker
Reported 2007-10-23 17:05:50 PDT
HEAD elements are not automatically generated in empty documents. * STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Create an about:blank document. Notice there's an auto generated body element, but not head element. Having a auto generated head element matches behavior of other browsers and is important for a high profile email site.
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test 1 (301 bytes, text/html)
2007-10-26 11:10 PDT, Alexey Proskuryakov 		no flags
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test 2 (758 bytes, text/html)
2007-10-26 11:11 PDT, Alexey Proskuryakov 		no flags
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test 2 (780 bytes, text/html)
2007-10-26 11:13 PDT, Alexey Proskuryakov 		no flags
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Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 1 2007-10-26 11:10:43 PDT
Created attachment 16884 [details] test 1
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 2 2007-10-26 11:11:01 PDT
Created attachment 16885 [details] test 2
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 3 2007-10-26 11:13:15 PDT
Created attachment 16886 [details] test 2 Updated to work in Safari, not just in Firefox...
Robert Blaut
Comment 4 2008-03-04 15:40:04 PST
The problem is clearly visible in Live DOM Viewer: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E Gecko and Presto generate the head element. Webkit in this case violates the HTML5 spec: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#before5
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 5 2009-09-01 15:54:03 PDT
This was fixed in <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/43215>. Test2 still fails, and this is because we don't create HTML and HEAD nodes immediately from document.write() - we create them when closing a document if they still don't exist. This is a difference with Firefox, but IE behaves the same.
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