Re: [whatwg] HTMLLinkElement.disabled and HTMLLinkElement.sheet behavior

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> On 1/27/12 1:30 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
>> > On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Boris Zbarsky<bzbarsky@mit.edu>  wrote:
>> > > > What Firefox does do is block execution of<script>  tags (but not
>> > > > timeouts, callbacks, etc!) if there are pending non-altenate
>> > > > parser-inserted stylesheet loads.  This is necessary to make sure
>> > > > that scripts getting layout properties see the effect of those
>> > > > stylesheets. A side-effect is that a<script>  coming after a<link>
>> > > > will never see the link in an unloaded state... unless there's a
>> > > > network error for the<link>  or whatever.
>> > >
>> > > One exception: If an inline script comes from document.write(), it
>> > > doesn't block on pending sheets. It runs right away. If it blocked
>> > > on pending sheets, the point at which document.write() returns would
>> > > depend on network performance, which I think would be worse than
>> > > having document.written inline scripts that poke at styles fail
>> > > depending on network performance.
>> >
>> > Note that this is not conforming. The spec does not currently define
>> > any such behaviour.
>>
>> Which part is not conforming?  The exception for alternate sheets, the
>> inline script inside document.write thing, or something else?
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, nothing in the HTML spec does anything differently
> based on whether a script comes from document.write() or not.

I think that's a spec bug per "one exception" above.

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Thursday, 7 June 2012 13:33:25 UTC