[whatwg] hashchange only dispatched in history traversal

Tue Aug 14 03:15:48 PDT 2007

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Michael A. Puls II wrote:
> On 8/10/07, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
> > I would also suggest calling it something other than hashchange. I
> > realize the term "hash" is used in other places in the HTML DOM to
> > refer to the fragment ID but it sounds weird in an event name like
> > that. CSS uses "target" and the URI RFC uses "fragment identifier".
> 
> I like "hashchange" even if it's not perfectly descriptive.
> 
> However, "fragmentidentifierchange" although long, isn't much longer
> than DOMAttributeModified
> and is shorter than say, DOMNodeRemovedFromDocument.
> 
> addEventListener("fragmentidentifierchange" doesn't seem too bad to me.
> 
> And, if for some reason you wanted it shortened in your script, you
> could just do:
> 
> var hashchange = "fragmentidentifierchange";
> a.addEventListener(hashchange
> b.addEventListener(hashchange
> c.addEventListener(hashchange

I don't know.

   <body onfragmentidentifierchange="">

...seems a bit overly long to me, still.

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