[whatwg] <video> ... <script> race condition

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org>wrote:

> Sure! For certain kinds of events ("load", the video events, maybe more),
> delay the firing of such events until, say, after DOMContentLoaded has
> fired. If you're careful you might be able to make this a strict subset of
> the behaviors currently allowed by the spec ... i.e. you're pretending that
> your frame, image and video loads simply didn't complete until after
> DOMContentLoaded fired in the outer page. That would mean it's compatible
> with properly-written legacy content ... if there is any.
>
> Of course I have no idea whether that approach is actually feasible :-). It
> obviously isn't compatible with what browsers currently do, so authors
> wouldn't want to rely on it for a long time if ever.
>

However, given authors are already relying on this behavior, if it's
feasible it would probably improve app reliability and interop.

Rob
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