- From: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:02:52 +0200
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 04/29/2013 03:51 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 4/29/13 6:50 AM, James Graham wrote:
>> So far we have kept the model where the load event is auomatically
>> managed by the UA, rather than giving the developer direct control of it.
>
> Developers already have direct control over the load event to the extent
> being proposed, as far as I can tell. Consider this:
>
> var blockers = [];
> function blockOnload() {
> var i = document.createElement("iframe");
> document.documentElement.appendChild(i);
> blockers.push(i.contentDocument);
> i.contentDocument.open();
> }
>
> function unblockOnload() {
> blockers.pop().close();
> }
>
> Of course expecting web developers to come up with this themselves and
> have to redo all this boilerplate is not reasonable, not to mention the
> pollutes-the-DOM and uses-way-too-much-memory aspect of it all.
Yes, I wasn't clear that I was referring to what is encouraged through
having a documented API, rather than what is possible when one uses the
existing APIs in "innovative" ways.
Received on Monday, 29 April 2013 16:03:28 UTC