[whatwg] question about the popstate event

[Justin Lebar]

> From my reading of the spec, I would expect the following steps:
> 5. Page A is loaded.
> 6. The load event for Page A is dispatched.
> 7. The popstate event for Page A is dispatched.

I think this is correct.  A popstate event is always dispatched
whenever a new session history entry is activated (6.10.3).

-Justin

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:
> I'd like to make sure that I'm understanding the spec for pushState and the
> popstate event properly.
> Suppose, I have the following sequence of events:
> 1. Page A is loaded.
> 2. Page A calls pushState("foo", null).
> 3. The user navigates to Page B.
> 4. The user navigates back to Page A (clicks the back button once).
> Assuming the document of Page A was disposed upon navigation to Page B
> (i.e., that it was not preserved in a page cache), should a popstate event
> be generated as a result of step 4?
> From my reading of the spec, I would expect the following steps:
> 5. Page A is loaded.
> 6. The load event for Page A is dispatched.
> 7. The popstate event for Page A is dispatched.
> Do I understand correctly?
> Thanks,
> -Darin