- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:00:50 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Garrett Smith wrote: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#onhashchange > | onhashchange > | > | Must be invoked whenever a hashchange event > | is targeted at or bubbles through the element. > > I see it fires on History Traversal: > | If the specified entry has a URL that differs from the current entry's > | only by its fragment identifier, and the two share the same Document > | object, then fire a simple event with the name hashchange at the body > | element > > Is 'hashchange' an event that fires every time window.location.hash > changes? Yes. > I'm not sure what that has to do with the body element. Nothing especially, except that that is where the event is fired, so that you can do <body onhashchange="...">. > This may be one of those new ideas that may not ever see widespread > implementation. It's already implemented in IE8. > I'm interested in discussing the other issue that is more relevant to > existing standards and implementations (Misconceptions Documented). I will reply to all feedback in due course; the IDL-related issues are currently awaiting WebIDL updates that that the HTML5 spec can be updated. You can see what e-mails are still pending replies here: http://whatwg.org/issues/ -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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