Boris Zbarsky | 24 Jan 2010 22:24
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Re: DOMContentLoaded event and iframes

On 1/24/10 3:52 PM, WakA wrote:
> Naturally, I'm not expecting or even hoping for a change in the codebase
> or behavior in order to achieve this. If I wanted to fry an egg using my
> browser i'm sure this would be "possible" in some way. ;) I was mostly
> looking to DOMContentLoaded as a way to supplant a load event (that only
> fires after all the potentially big content has been loaded). My
> expectation for the behavior of DOMContentLoaded was thus of a load
> event minus all the nonDOM content, but this turned out not to be since
> the "whole" page is not fully loaded and waiting for iframes to load
> whilst the DOMContentLoaded event is already fired.

Well...  An <iframe> is in fact "non-DOM content".

The precise definition of DOMContentLoaded is "when parsing of the page 
is done".

> Ideally I guess I'm looking for something like a (theoretical)
> DOMAllContentLoaded event

Defined how?

-Boris

Gmane