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

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 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

Ah, no, hadn't seen that one. Will fix that in due course also.

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