[whatwg] Ambiguity re firing the popstate event

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Justin Lebar wrote:
>
> Section 6.5.9.1 [1] says:
> 
> > The popstate event is fired when navigating to a session history entry that represents a state object.

Note that this is not a normative statement (there's no "must" or 
other RFC2119 term). It's just an informative description.


> In contrast, section 6.5.9 [2] indicates in step 10 that a popstate 
> event is fired if the history entry represents a state object or the 
> first entry for a document.

Right, that's the actual requirement.


> I think we can resolve this in the spec by changing the line from 
> 6.5.9.1 to:
> 
> > The popstate event is fired when navigating to a session history 
> > entry.

This text does need fixing (I've noted this e-mail and will fix it in due 
course), but changing this text makes no difference to the requirments in 
the spec.

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