[whatwg] Why is DOMContentLoaded event not bubbling?

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Aug 4 16:07:04 PDT 2010


On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Nickolay Ponomarev wrote:
> 
> Currently DOMContentLoaded is specified [1] with this sentence:
> > Queue a task to fire a simple event named DOMContentLoaded at the
> Document.
> 
> and "fire a simple event" is defined [2] as "does not bubble (except 
> where otherwise stated) and is not cancelable (except where otherwise 
> stated)". So it's not bubbling and, as far as I understand, per [3] it 
> means it doesn't bubble to Window.
> 
> I checked Gecko (trunk), Safari (4), Chrome (6) and in all of them it 
> bubbles to window and reports itself as bubbling.

Fixed.

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