Can script determine if window.onload has already fired?
in [JavaScript]
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From: David Mark on 19 Nov 2009 18:01 On Nov 19, 5:54 pm, Jorge <jo...(a)jorgechamorro.com> wrote: > On Nov 19, 11:34 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...(a)web.de> > wrote: > > > > > Unlikely: <http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6408-10/handlers.htm#1120545> > > If you specify an onLoad event handler for an Image object that > displays a looping GIF animation (multi-image GIF), each loop of the > animation triggers the onLoad event, and the event handler executes > once for each loop. > > Is this true ? It was. Not a concern today as nobody (sane) uses animated GIF's on the Web.
From: Jorge on 19 Nov 2009 18:09 On Nov 20, 12:01 am, David Mark <dmark.cins...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 19, 5:54 pm, Jorge <jo...(a)jorgechamorro.com> wrote: > > > On Nov 19, 11:34 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...(a)web.de> > > wrote: > > > > Unlikely: <http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6408-10/handlers.htm#1120545> > > > If you specify an onLoad event handler for an Image object that > > displays a looping GIF animation (multi-image GIF), each loop of the > > animation triggers the onLoad event, and the event handler executes > > once for each loop. > > > Is this true ? > > It was. Not a concern today as nobody (sane) uses animated GIF's on > the Web. Not even spinners ? -- Jorge.
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 19 Nov 2009 18:16 David Mark wrote: > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >> David Mark wrote: >> > The proprietary window.onload property likely came about so that >> > scripts in the HEAD could set a load listener to the BODY before the >> > body is ready. >> >> Unlikely: <http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6408-10/handlers.htm#1120545> > > I don't follow. There is no mentioning of setting a listener to the BODY with window.onload there. PointedEars -- Prototype.js was written by people who don't know javascript for people who don't know javascript. People who don't know javascript are not the best source of advice on designing systems that use javascript. -- Richard Cornford, cljs, <f806at$ail$1$8300dec7(a)news.demon.co.uk>
From: Gregor Kofler on 19 Nov 2009 18:23 Jorge meinte: > On Nov 20, 12:01 am, David Mark <dmark.cins...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> It was. Not a concern today as nobody (sane) uses animated GIF's on >> the Web. > > Not even spinners ? An onload listener for spinners which indicate loading processes? Sound pretty recursive... Gregor -- http://www.gregorkofler.com
From: Jorge on 19 Nov 2009 18:37
On Nov 20, 12:23 am, Gregor Kofler <use...(a)gregorkofler.com> wrote: > Jorge meinte: > > > On Nov 20, 12:01 am, David Mark <dmark.cins...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> It was. Not a concern today as nobody (sane) uses animated GIF's on > >> the Web. > > > Not even spinners ? > > An onload listener for spinners which indicate loading processes? Sound > pretty recursive... LOL, yes. I've tested it and doesn't work in any (current) browser, as Mark said. -- Jorge. |