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== Current setup == | == Current setup == | ||
Window targeting is used for both <code><a target="name"> | Window targeting is used for both <code><a target="name"></code> and for <code>window.open(url, name)</code>. The process works as follows: | ||
# Identify the docshell making the targeting request. For links this is the container of the document the link is in. For <code>window.open</code> calls this is the docshell of the window the script that calls <code>window.open</code> is running in. This is the originating docshell. In what follows we always make sure that the originating docshell is allowed to perform a load in any docshell that we find matching the name that was passed in. | # Identify the docshell making the targeting request. For links this is the container of the document the link is in. For <code>window.open</code> calls this is the docshell of the window the script that calls <code>window.open</code> is running in. This is the originating docshell. In what follows we always make sure that the originating docshell is allowed to perform a load in any docshell that we find matching the name that was passed in. | ||