On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:14 AM, James Robinson <jamesr@google.com> wrote:
> > No browser updates the rendering after invoking every single task, but
> I'm
> > pretty sure that no modern browser updates the rendering at any other
> time.
>
> Testcase:
>
> http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1063
>
> I can confirm that in IE9, Firefox 6.0a2, and Chrome 14 dev, "Hi!" is
> never visible. In Opera 11.50, "Hi!" becomes visible immediately, and
> is replaced five seconds later by "Bye!". But I'm not surprised that
> this would cause compat issues for Opera, even though it increases
> responsiveness.
>
That's just insanity from Opera. I imagine that they will converge to what
other browsers and the spec say, propose modifications to the spec to make
their behavior conformant (highly unlikely), or remain intentionally
non-conformant in which case we can safely ignore the behavior.
- James