Bug 157421 – createDocument/createHTMLDocument should create a document with URL "about:blank", not ""

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: DUPLICATE
• Component: DOM

[Domenic Denicola]

http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?saved=4163 (and a similar version for createDocument) should log "about:blank" in the Log: section. Instead, in Safari 9, it logs "".

This was a recent spec change, sort of. See https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1174. Browsers do not have interop here, but "about:blank" is the best thing to converge on.

Web platform tests at 

- http://w3c-test.org/dom/nodes/DOMImplementation-createDocument.html
- http://w3c-test.org/dom/nodes/DOMImplementation-createHTMLDocument.html

[Chris Dumez]

(In reply to comment #0)
> http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?saved=4163 (and a
> similar version for createDocument) should log "about:blank" in the Log:
> section. Instead, in Safari 9, it logs "".
> 
> This was a recent spec change, sort of. See
> https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1174. Browsers do not have interop
> here, but "about:blank" is the best thing to converge on.
> 
> Web platform tests at 
> 
> - http://w3c-test.org/dom/nodes/DOMImplementation-createDocument.html
> - http://w3c-test.org/dom/nodes/DOMImplementation-createHTMLDocument.html

@Domenic: This has definitely been fixed since Safari 9. I suggest testing Safari Technology Preview as we've significantly improved our pass rate of w3c web-platform-tests.

[Chris Dumez]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 153363 ***

[Domenic Denicola]

Ah, thank you! Maybe I should get my employer to buy me a Mac, instead of constantly testing on my personal iPad...