- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:46:47 -0800
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 3/3/11 4:21 PM, Adam Barth wrote: >> >> 3) Forabout:blank, the load completes atomically (which makes sense >> because it's internal) and the load event fires as usual. > > I don't think the "internal" thing necessarily means that "completes > atomically" makes sense. What does "internal" even mean, here? > > I think you're assuming some architecture similar to whatever Webkit is > doing here, but I don't see why this assumption is warranted. To be clear, I'm mostly trying to rationalize existing behavior into a somewhat sane mental model. It's not really an "assumption" that the load is atomic. That's just an observation in Henri's table, as I understand it. Adam
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