- From: Matthias Bauer <moeffju@moeffju.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:58:13 +0200
On 29.03.2007 11:33 Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:30:36 +0200, Gareth Hay <gazhay at gmail.com> wrote: >> Does it not follow that to be "more consistent, logical, better style, >> whatever." you should wrap your code in a function that is called onload? >> >> Isn't that what onload is for? being triggered after the page has loaded? > > That load event dispatched on the <body> element also waits for all > external scripts and images to be loaded. This is not always desirable. What about the DOMContentLoaded event? It is supported by Mozilla and, apparently, Opera 9. Dean Edwards has a technique to make it work on IE, and jQuery supports it on Safari [1]. Is there any chance DOMContentLoaded will be part of HTML5? -Matt
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