[whatwg] Methods defined for one document called after that document is no longer the one being displayed

[Simon Pieters]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:04:33 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com>  
wrote:

> On Aug 5, 2008, at 2:12 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
>
>>
>> I would like some input from browser vendors.
>>
> [...]


Response from one of our developers:

On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:54:18 +0100, <jl at opera.com> wrote:

> I agree with Maciej; it would be unfortunate to adopt the behaviour that  
> Ian suggests.  Sure, it would be easy to define, but it isn't  
> necessarily easy to implement at all in an optimized engine.
>
> The third option, which Maciej claims roughly describes Gecko's and  
> Webkit's implementation, sounds quite a lot like Opera's also.  It's in  
> no way trivial to implement either, but it sounds like it is at least  
> widely adopted.
>
> / Jens

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software