DOMContentLoaded

[Alex Robinson]

I must be being super dense, but I can't see how to actually use
DOMContentLoaded (outside of Gecko, that is). My guess was that you
did something like this:

// somebody set up us the bomb - all your base2 window objects are
belong to us
base2.DOM.EventTarget(window);

// works
window.addEventListener("load", myInit, false);

// doesn't work
window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", myInit, false);

Obviously when I say "doesn't work", it works in assorted Geckos,
Safari and Opera. I mean it doesn't work in IE (6 or 7)

So, just how is one supposed to actually make use of the support that
Base2 provides for DOMContentLoaded?

[Dean Edwards]

Alex Robinson wrote:
> I must be being super dense, but I can't see how to actually use
> DOMContentLoaded (outside of Gecko, that is). My guess was that you
> did something like this:
>

> // doesn't work
> window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", myInit, false);
>

The window object is not part of the DOM. Use this instead:

document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", myInit, false);

-dean

[Alex Robinson]

>The window object is not part of the DOM. Use this instead:
>
>document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", myInit, false);

Ah right. And now I've tracked down my incorrectly overlapping script
tags, it works lovely.

However, just before moving on...

The standards-based way of doing this (in so far as DOMContentLoaded
is a standard?) is to do

window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", myInit, false);

(or am I wrong? if so, please discount the following)

This will need flagging up in the docs. Or perhaps the code could
make a special exception if the element passed is the window object
and the handler is DOMContentLoaded, flipping the element that the
handler is set on to document? Just a thought.

[Dean Edwards]

Alex Robinson wrote:
> The standards-based way of doing this (in so far as DOMContentLoaded
> is a standard?) is to do
>
> window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", myInit, false);
>
> (or am I wrong? if so, please discount the following)
>

Show me the standard for this.

-dean

[Alex Robinson]

>Show me the standard for this.

Colour me nine shades of wrong.

Obviously, DOMCOntentLoaded is not actually a standard. What I meant,
was that I thought that Gecko (and Opera) required the handler to be
attached to the window object. I now realise, post actually bothering
to test it, that my supposition was tosh, and that using document
works just as well.