Firefox replacement for document.readyState complete?

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Peter Michaux

Hi,

I am polling a frame from the parent window for readyState "complete".
Unfortunately Win/Firefox doesn't have readyState. I'm looking for
ways to deduce the same information. Maybe the document height hasn't
changed for one second would be a good indicator that the images are
loaded. A few crazy tricks like this would probably be good enough for
me. This is for an automated test suite and not for production code so
even navigator.useragent would be ok.

Does anyone know if there is some function that you can't call until
after the window.onload event? Maybe something that throws an error
before window.onload?

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Peter
 
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David Mark

Hi,

I am polling a frame from the parent window for readyState "complete".
Unfortunately Win/Firefox doesn't have readyState. I'm looking for
ways to deduce the same information. Maybe the document height hasn't
changed for one second would be a good indicator that the images are
loaded. A few crazy tricks like this would probably be good enough for
me. This is for an automated test suite and not for production code so
even navigator.useragent would be ok.

Does anyone know if there is some function that you can't call until
after the window.onload event? Maybe something that throws an error
before window.onload?
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Once the DOM is ready, you can do anything, regardless of whether the
images, objects, etc. are still loading.

What are you trying to measure with this test?
 
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn

Peter said:
I am polling a frame from the parent window for readyState "complete".
Unfortunately Win/Firefox doesn't have readyState.
Click to expand...

<body onload="...">
...
</body>

is the standard way to go and is supported both by IE and Geckos (incl.
Firefox).


PointedEars
 
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Peter Michaux

Once the DOM is ready, you can do anything, regardless of whether the
images, objects, etc. are still loading.

What are you trying to measure with this test?
Click to expand...

This is for an automated testing suite. A parent frame changes the URL
of a child frame. The parent frame needs to know when the child frame
is fully loaded. The page that is loading in the child frame cannot
make any communication to announce it is ready as that would require
that page's author to know about the testing framework. It would also
mean a lot of existing pages would need modification so they can be
tested.

Peter
 
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Ed

This is for an automated testing suite. A parent frame changes the URL
of a child frame. The parent frame needs to know when the child frame
is fully loaded. The page that is loading in the child frame cannot
make any communication to announce it is ready as that would require
that page's author to know about the testing framework. It would also
mean a lot of existing pages would need modification so they can be
tested.

Peter
Click to expand...

How about

<frame src="frame.html" onload="frame_load();">

This is nonstandard but it seems to work in Firefox.
 
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn

Ed said:
This is for an automated testing suite. A parent frame changes the URL
of a child frame. The parent frame needs to know when the child frame
is fully loaded. The page that is loading in the child frame cannot
make any communication to announce it is ready as that would require
that page's author to know about the testing framework. It would also
mean a lot of existing pages would need modification so they can be
tested.
[...]
Click to expand...

How about

<frame src="frame.html" onload="frame_load();">

This is nonstandard but it seems to work in Firefox.
Click to expand...

<frameset src="frame.html" onload="frame_load();">
...
</frameset>

is standard and may work, too.


PointedEars
 

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