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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Joe Nine wrote:
>
>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>> Joe Nine wrote:
>>>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>>>> Joe Nine wrote:
>>>>>> There is a case where I deliberately create an iframe element with a
>>>>>> blank src and it doesn't [appear to] load the html into it. If it did,
>>>>>> then it would recurse ad-infinitum. A chain of iframe turtles all the
>>>>>> way down.
>>>>> You realize, of course, that this a case as I described, where it makes
>>>>> a lot of sense for a UA to prune the HTTP request. Still you should
>>>>> not rely on that the iframe stays blank, then. So, again, do not do
>>>>> this.
>>>> Unfortunately I need to do this because of this 5 year old Firefox bug:
>>> No, you don't. You have every freedom to use a proper default value.
>> I'd like to use a default value I really would, but the html page that
>> I'm loading into the iframe wants to be fully reloaded each time the
>> browser is refreshed, like it deserves to be. It's an entire html page
>> and should be treated with respect and get fully reloaded. Firefox
>> doesn't treat it like that though, it doesn't fully reload the iframe.
>
> That problem does not appear to exist in "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
> en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100404 Iceweasel/3.6.3 (like Firefox/3.6.3)
> GTB7.0" anymore. In any event, I find it unlikely that using a default
> empty string is necessary or sufficient to work around this problem.

Well, I'm happy with the solution. It works for me.

> You should also stop talking about technical entities as if they were
> people. It makes you look a bit naive. There is also no `html page', there
> is an _HTML_ _document_.

I like to give them some personality. I don't want to be cold and
abstract to them. HTML pages have feelings too The W3 refer to HTML
pages here: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

> And please stop quoting my signature.
>
> PointedEars

I haven't quoted your sig. Thunderbird automatically removes it when I
hit reply.