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

[Jonas Sicking]

2011/6/17 Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Mihai Parparita wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>> >> 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?
>>
>> Firefox does this intentionally
>> (http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/03/history-api-changes-in-firefox-4/),
>> and Chrome will be changing to follow suit (http://crbug.com/63040).
>> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12707 is open about this,
>> I'm not sure if there's been any spec changes.
>
> The spec has been updated to match the above, which is why I ask how the
> OP was testing Firefox. The event still fires, it just probably fires
> before any event handlers have been registered.

Have you really fixed bug 12707? Note that this is not the initial bug
filed on making the spec follow the mozilla proposed changes. If bug
12707 really has been fixed, it would be great if you could mention
this in the bug and close it.

[1] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12707

/ Jonas