Test-case:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>
<!-- duplicate previous line a further 99 times, for 1000 spans total -->

<script>
var cur = document.querySelector("script");
var depth = -1;
while (cur) {
  cur = cur.parentNode;
  depth++;
}
document.body.textContent = depth;
</script>

Outputs 513 in Chrome.  It looks like any further <span>s are inserted
as siblings instead of children.  The <script> is processed correctly.

IE11 outputs "1003" but then the tab seems to crash.

We don't execute the script at all.  This doesn't seem desirable even
if we do limit the depth.  A modified test-case for us:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<script>
onload = function() {
var els = document.querySelectorAll("span");
var cur = els[els.length - 1];
var depth = -1;
while (cur) {
  cur = cur.parentNode;
  depth++;
}
document.body.textContent = depth;
}
</script>
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>
<!-- Another 99 lines of this -->

This outputs 201.

I think upping the limit from 200 to 512, and standardizing that,
makes sense, unless there's actually something inside Gecko that would
break from that change.  I also think that further elements should be
appended as siblings, like Chrome does, not otherwise mangled.  I
don't see any reason why the <script> shouldn't run in the first
test-case.

(This is all somewhat off the point of your original post, I realize.)

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Aryeh Gregor <a...@aryeh.name> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote:
>>> If the depth limit is still needed, can now be increased?
>>
>> What do other UAs do?  This seems like it may as well be standardized,
>> just so the odd corner-case page breaks the same in all UAs.
>
> Whenever people complain about this, the pages render "correctly" in
> at least Blink and WebKit. I don't recall checking Edge.
>
> --
> Henri Sivonen
> hsivo...@hsivonen.fi
> https://hsivonen.fi/
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