[whatwg] hashchange only dispatched in history traversal

Wed Aug 20 04:06:04 PDT 2008

I am very disappointed.  "onhashchange" intuitively means that the content
hash changes (which is more or less equivalent to modifying the content, of
course).  I would call this event "onreveal" to be in line with the primary
bookmark semantics.  The name is inspired by the Finder AppleScript
dictionary, of course.  Please reconsider.
Chris

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Ian Hickson
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:14 AM
To: Leons Petrazickis; Agustín
Cc: Michael A. Puls II; WHATWG; Maciej Stachowiak
Subject: Re: [whatwg] hashchange only dispatched in history traversal

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Leons Petrazickis wrote:
> On 8/15/07, Michael A. Puls II <shadow2531 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/14/07, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Michael A. Puls II wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> 
> I've always referred to fragment indentifiers as in-page anchors. So, 
> why not:
> 
> <body onanchorchange="">
> 
> I think it's more readable than onfragmentidentifierchange

We ended up using onhashchange="".