[whatwg] Readiness of script-created documents

[Henri Sivonen]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote:
>> http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1039
>>
>> It says "complete" in Firefox, "loading" in Chrome and Opera and
>> "uninitialized" in IE. The spec requires "complete". readyState is
>> originally an IE API. Why doesn't the spec require "uninitialized"?
>>
>> (The implementation in Gecko is so recent that it's quite possible that
>> Gecko followed the spec and the spec just made stuff up as opposed to
>> the spec following Gecko.)
>
> "complete" seems like the most useful and consistent value which would
> seem like a good reason to require that.

Why don't aborted documents reach "complete" in Gecko? It seems weird
to have aborted documents stay in  the "loading" state when they are
not, in fact, loading.

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