- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 06:29:06 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Frode B?rli wrote:
>
> 1. Which readystate does an img object have, before it is added to the
> DOM? Example:
>
> var i = document.createElement("IMG");
> alert(i.readystate); // afaict the state SHOULD be uninitialized here...
> i.onreadystatechange(function(){alert(this.readystate);}
> i.src = "some_url.jpg";
> alert(i.readystate);
It seems only IE supports this property, so hopefully we don't need to
spec it (or support it in other UAs).
> The example applies to iframes as well, i believe.
I couldn't reproduce this.
> 2. How can we listen to the onreadystatechange, if we want to trigger an
> event when the object starts loading? It will not change readystate
> since it was already in the state loading.
In HTML5 there's no way to get an event when an <img> begins loading. It
begins loading when the src="" is set.
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