On Wed, 9 May 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > It would be nice if this method described things for image in terms of > .complete. Although I've also heard people suggest they would like this > method to be synchronous when HTMLImageElement is passed (Bjoern, iirc) > so that you don't need the trickery involved to make sure it's already > loaded.
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > I expressed myself poorly. What I meant with synchronous is that the > method waits for the image to load. In any case, it would be nice if the > specification was a little more exact (or if people think it already is: > elaborate) on the subject. On Wed, 9 May 2007, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > Based on experience with synchronous XHR, I think we should avoid adding > more synchronous networking operations. In addition, drawing a partially > loaded image may be a desirable behavior in some cases I've updated the spec. Now, if an HTMLImageElement is passed whose 'complete' attribute is false, an INVALID_STATE_ERR exception must be raised. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
