[Bug 9767] Consider ignoring document.write() when IE ignores it if comes from the network task source

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9767


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




--- Comment #17 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2010-07-14 02:02:32 ---
The solution in comment 8 seems to make document.write()s in timeouts act
differently based on whether the parser has finished or not, which seems bad.

The solution in comment 16 makes the resulting document depend on the network.
It's bad enough that we let script load order depend on the network, but having
it change the resulting source document seems excessively bad. It also seems
like this would still cause the page to go blank in the case of the scripts
taking longer to load than the page (i.e. nothing seems to prevent the scripts
from being read after the EOF is consumed). In fact I don't really follow how
you're preventing the EOF from being consumed at all... surely as soon as you
know there's an EOF, it's consumed? Are you just appending it at random points
in the stream (i.e. after whatever you happen to have received from the network
so far)?

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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: The problem is real; I've gone with the solution in comment 10 for
now.

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