[whatwg] API to delay the document load event

[James Graham]

On 04/29/2013 03:51 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I wasn't clear that I was referring to what is encouraged through 
having a documented API, rather than what is possible when one uses the 
existing APIs in "innovative" ways.