[whatwg] Proposal for separating script downloads and execution

Glenn Maynard glenn at zewt.org
Fri Mar 4 12:27:14 PST 2011


On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Kyle Simpson <getify at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can someone double-check that onreadystatechange does not actually work for
>> this in IE9 in standards mode?  IE9 seems to no longer fire
>> onreadystatechange when the script is not in the document.  (onerror is,
>> though, which I think is a spec violation.)
>>
>>
>>
>> http://zewt.org/~glenn/test-script-preload-onreadystatechange/standards-mode.html(onreadystatechange
>> not fired)
>>
>>
>> http://zewt.org/~glenn/test-script-preload-onreadystatechange/quirks-mode.html(onreadystatechange
>> fired)
>>
>
> In IE9 RC1, both those tests fired the "onreadystatechange: loaded" alert.
> Isn't that expected behavior? What led you to believe it was broken?
>

My IE9 VM is out of date, apparently.  I'm guessing they removed this and
then restored it.  I'll check for an update--thanks for checking this.

-- 
Glenn Maynard



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