Bug 37806

Summary: Banner ads appear multiple times when opening Web Archive from boston.com/bigpicture
Product: WebKit Reporter: Adam Roben (:aroben) <aroben>
Component: Page LoadingAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW    
Severity: Normal CC: ap, beidson
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: PC   
OS: OS X 10.5   
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Adam Roben (:aroben)
Reported 2010-04-19 10:14:51 PDT
Created attachment 53686 [details] test Web Archive To reproduce: 1. Go to http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html 2. Save a Web Archive of the page 3. Open the Web Archive The banner ads in the page appear multiple (~12) times. I've attached a Web Archive that can be used for testing.
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test Web Archive (7.18 MB, application/x-webarchive)
2010-04-19 10:14 PDT, Adam Roben (:aroben) 		no flags
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Adam Roben (:aroben)
Comment 1 2010-04-19 10:26:12 PDT
<rdar://problem/7879550>
Brady Eidson
Comment 2 2010-04-19 10:32:05 PDT
This isn't super-surprising. WebArchives have this problem in general. They save a snapshot of the page - including the DOM that has often dynamically been changed by scripts - at the time the archive is created. But when you reopen one, it runs the onload handlers again, which often replicate content. I'm sure we have various bugs that allude to this, don't know if there's a specific umbrella, and don't know if we've even theorized any possible solutions. I do know it's been around forever :)
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 3 2010-04-20 12:15:07 PDT
Yes, this seems to behave by design.
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