[whatwg] DOMContentLoaded, load and current document readiness

[Jonas Sicking]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hmm.. how long as that been the case? I thought that when we
>> >> originally implemented @defer we ran them before DOMContentLoaded was
>> >> fired for various internal sanity reasons as well as because it gave
>> >> authors better migration paths.
>> >>
>> >> It seems nice to me to be able to depend on that all scripts have run
>> >> by the time that DOMContentLoaded is fired. Except for async scripts
>> >> of course, which are always unreliable as to when and which order
>> >> they execute. I.e. async scripts is an explicit footgun, but I'd
>> >> rather have fewer of those.
>> >
>> > I haven't changed the spec here. I don't really see what we gain by
>> > making the "stop parsing" algorithm different in this way.
>>
>> Different in what way? From what?
>
> Different from what it says now in the way you propose above (having
> appendChild-inserted <script src> element exection delay DOMContentLoaded).

That's not what I'm suggesting. I'm suggesting that <script defer
src="..."> and <script defer> elements appearing in the markup and
parsed by the parser should always run before DOMContentLoaded firing.
This appears to be what Firefox does, and I would expect that the web
depends on this. For example I would expect defered to contain
document.write which should not blow away the current page.

/ Jonas