[whatwg] What should document.write() do when called from setTimeout or event handlers?

[Alexey Feldgendler]

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:37:17 +0700, Stewart Brodie  
<stewart.brodie at antplc.com> wrote:

>> Mozilla seems to make the document.write() calls insert text into the
>> parser, as if they'd been called inline, with the result that the  
>> inserted text could appear pretty much anywhere. (It's actually a bit  
>> more
>> complex than that -- it avoids inserting into tokens -- but that's a  
>> detail.)

Mozilla tokenizes text in blocks as it arrives from the network socket.  
document.write() in the described situation seems to insert the text after  
the already tokenized portion. This means that the observed behavior will  
depend on the network conditions.

> I think we can do without Heisenberg-like effects from Mozilla :-)

Indeed. :-)


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