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- Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:36:36 +0000
- To: public-html@w3.org
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13498
Summary: document.readyState should return to 'loading' on
navigation
Product: HTML WG
Version: unspecified
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Windows XP
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
ReportedBy: hallvord@opera.com
QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
public-html@w3.org
Opera has problems 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.
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 sense.
(Originally posted on public-html:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Jul/0199.html )
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