Re: LC Comment - Script & Progressive Rendering / Multiple Pages

"Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote in message 
news:41ADF419.3070005@mit.edu...
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> Jim Ley wrote:
>> Removing, inserting or altering script elements once the document has 
>> been loaded has no effect.
>
> May I ask why there is this clause?  The "altering" and "removing" part 
> makes sense, but in other markup languages creating a brand-new <script> 
> and inserting it into the document will execute that script...

I'd be happy if you could come up with a suitable specification of how that 
works I'd be happy with it, I've not seen it specified currently and as it's 
completely unnecessary, I think it's easier to just say not allowed.  The 
HTML behaviour is not consistent across browsers.

Jim. 

Received on Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:51:37 UTC