On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 1/10/12 1:54 PM, Darin Adler wrote: >> On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> >>> So in WebKit this event is only good for preventing _processing_ of the >>> data in the page (e.g. preventing the script from executing when the target >>> is a<script>) but not much use for preventing loads, even if some people >>> seem to think that it is. >> >> That’s a bug in the current implementation that we are working on fixing. > > If I might ask, how do you plan to fix it without at least breaking > speculative loads in the presence of beforeload handlers? I just don't see > how WebKit's current event setup can be used without doing that, because it > requires the relevant DOM node to exist.
Good question, and I don’t know. I’ll try to find someone who does know. -- Darin