[whatwg] API to delay the document load event
Boris Zbarsky
bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Mon Apr 29 06:51:12 PDT 2013
On 4/29/13 6:50 AM, James Graham wrote:
> So far we have kept the model where the load event is auomatically
> managed by the UA, rather than giving the developer direct control of it.
Developers already have direct control over the load event to the extent
being proposed, as far as I can tell. Consider this:
var blockers = [];
function blockOnload() {
var i = document.createElement("iframe");
document.documentElement.appendChild(i);
blockers.push(i.contentDocument);
i.contentDocument.open();
}
function unblockOnload() {
blockers.pop().close();
}
Of course expecting web developers to come up with this themselves and
have to redo all this boilerplate is not reasonable, not to mention the
pollutes-the-DOM and uses-way-too-much-memory aspect of it all.
-Boris
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