[whatwg] Question about "certain cases" for popstate event

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, RafaÅ~B MiÅ~Becki wrote:
> 
> There is part of the spec that do not see too obvious for me. Could you 
> help me with that?
> 
> 6.5.9.1 says:
> > The popstate event is fired in certain cases when navigating to a 
> > session history entry.
>
> Where can I find definition of that "certain cases"?

If you click on "popstate" you'll be taken to the definition of 
"popstate"; if you click on it again you'll be presented with a list of 
all the references. Or, you can just search for "popstate". Either way 
you'll find that the only place that fires it is here:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/history.html#history-traversal

The next question of course is "when is that algorithm invoked". If you 
click on its definition (the bold text at the top of that section) then 
you'll get a list of the places where it's mentioned. The exact answer is 
rather subtle and I'm reluctant to try to summarise it.


> Google Chrome 10 seems to fire popstate even if I open totally new page.
> Firefox 4 seems to fire event only on going back/forward

How are you determining if Firefox fires the event? Are you sure you're 
not just checking after Firefox has fired it?

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