- From: Hallvord R. M. Steen <hallvord@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:27:15 +0900
- To: "public-html list" <public-html@w3.org>
Hello, having just investigated a problem with uploading attachments on T-Online.de's webmail, it boils down to an issue that might have some relevance for HTML5's definition of the readyState property / document readiness calculation ( http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dom.html#current-document-readiness ). What happens in IE is that when a window is being navigated away from the current document, that document's readyState changes from 'complete' to 'loading'. (It would have made more sense in this case to have 'readyState' as a property on the window, but that's a sin of designers past..). HTML5 has not noticed this, it seems (or chosen to ignore it?), so the spec as-written seems to asssume that readyState won't ever switch from complete back to loading. The site sniffs for WebKit-based browsers and Firefox, because they don't emulate IE on this point. I'm throwing this out as a discussion topic, now that we've realised IE does some extra stuff and found an important site depending on it. I think switching back to 'loading' when some load is pending makes some sense. -- Hallvord R. M. Steen, Core Tester, Opera Software http://www.opera.com http://my.opera.com/hallvors/
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