- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:11:35 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > > > This is already implicitly required. The loadedmetadata event is > > queued from a task, therefore the event loop must spin at least once > > for the event to be fired. The penultimate step of the event loop is > > "If necessary, update the rendering or user interface of any Document > > or browsing context to reflect the current state". > > I'm not sure what this means in practice... Does this require painting > to happen, or just pending updates to be flushed? Just the latter. > Does it even require pending updates to be flushed, or can that happen > lazily when someone requests layout data? There's no difference from a spec point of view. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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