Re: ISSUE-131 (defaultView load ): Define load event to fire on defaultView [DOM3 Events]

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:22:28 +0200, Hallvord R. M. Steen  
<hallvord@opera.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:29:49 +0900, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>  
> wrote:
>> Note: for legacy reasons, the load event does not propagate to the
>> defaultView in HTML implementations.
>
> My suggestion would be something like
>
> Note: for legacy reasons, load events dispatched when resources inside  
> the document are loaded do not propagate to the defaultView in HTML  
> implementations. The load event for the document itself is dispatched on  
> the defaultView as described in [HTML5].

Isn't that wrong? Because all events are dispatched on defaultView as per  
HTML5. Nothing propagates automatically. It is just that HTML5 defines an  
exception for the load event here. I still DOM Level 3 Events should say  
nothing about this at all and leave Window to where Window is defined.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Friday, 8 October 2010 08:40:39 UTC