- From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Date: 02 Jun 2003 14:21:47 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: WWW DOM <www-dom@w3.org>
> The DOM2 Events specification appears to be unclear about exactly > which objects the "load" event applies to. This has been (hopefully) clarified in the DOM Level 3 Events specification. > In a pure XML context, is it the root element, or the document itself, > that receives this event? The load event can be dispatch to an Element node: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20030331/events.html#Events-EventTypes-complete > In an (X)HTML context, does the body element get the event? Given the compatibility between XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4, the list of possible targets for the load event is: [[ HTMLBodyElement, HTMLFrameSetElement, HTMLObjectElement, HTMLLinkElement, HTMLMetaElement, HTMLScriptElement, HTMLFrameElement, HTMLIFrameElement, HTMLImageElement ]] http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20030331/events.html#Events-eventgroupings-htmlevents > If the latter, then how does one attach a load event to a document > before the body node has been loaded into the document? (As is common > with load events, since the document is typically not going to be > fully loaded when the event is attached.) The load event, as defined in HTML 4 using the onload attribute, was designed for the FRAMESET and BODY elements. We extended the concept in DOM to address other "objects". I believe that your functionality is addressed in the Load and Save module: [[ Events supported by asynchronous DOMBuilder objects are: * load: The document that's being loaded is completely parsed, see the definition of LSLoadEvent * progress: Progress notification, see the definition of LSProgressEvent ]] http://www.w3.org/2003/05/WD-DOM-Level-3-LS-20030509/load-save.html#LS-DOMBuilder In other words, the target is not the Document, but the object used to build the Document. > Some clarifications to the DOM2 Events specification would be very > useful. Correct, it would be good to put it on our errata list for DOM Level 2 Events at some point. We are giving priorities to DOM Level 3 for the moment (over DOM Level 1 Second Edition or DOM Level 2 errata). Philippe
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