[Bug 56812] javascript:popup causes error "protocol not supported javascript"

[Dawit A.]

On Friday 04 April 2003 01:58, Dawit A. wrote:
> On Friday 04 April 2003 01:10, Dawit A. wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 April 2003 20:57, cparpart at surakware.net wrote:
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> > > ------- Additional Comments From cparpart at surakware.net  2003-04-04
> > > 03:57 ------- Subject: Re: javascript:popup causes error "protocol not
> > > supported javascript"
> >
> > KHTML treats the two javascript based links differently.  Perhaps the
> > attached patch was the intention of the original fix in revision 1.794 ?
> > The patch simply ignores the target attribute unless the page is frame
> > based.  Dunno if that was the desired behavior though...
>
> Please disregard the patch as it is bogus and does not address the issue,
> but the analysis is still valid.

Let me clarify this a bit. The patch does fix it for the site reported in the 
bug report, i.e. incorrect usage on sites without a FRAME. However it will 
not work properly if there happens to be unrelated IFRAME tag in the page
for example.  Sorry for the multiple posts :(

Regards,
Dawit A.