[whatwg] should we add beforeload/afterload events to the web platform? from Darin Adler on 2012-01-10 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from January 2012)

From: Darin Adler <darin@apple.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:54:56 -0800
Message-ID: <B07ABC7A-C29A-48C8-B19C-5945145B2E96@apple.com>

On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:

> So in WebKit this event is only good for preventing _processing_ of the data in the page (e.g. preventing the script from executing when the target is a <script>) but not much use for preventing loads, even if some people seem to think that it is.

That?s a bug in the current implementation that we are working on fixing.

-- Darin

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