[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 14968] New: document.open() erroneously returns void instead of the new Document

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14968

           Summary: document.open() erroneously returns void instead of the
                    new Document
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 522+ (nightly)
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML DOM
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: morganl.webkit at yahoo.com


document.open() erroneously returns void instead of the new Document

in other browsers (IE, FF, and Opera), document.open() returns the new
Document, and you can write into it to generate content.

example:

  var d = document.open("text/html", "replace");
  d.write("foo");
  d.close();

apparently, the html5 spec does not describe this behavior:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#htmldocument

mozilla defines the form of document.open that returns a new document here (as
a Netscape extension to the DOM):
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/dom/public/idl/html/nsIDOMNSHTMLDocument.idl


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