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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: DOM styling modified by <body onload=> JavaScript does not affect first rendering
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:27:10 +0100
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Christoph M. Becker wrote:

> In section 4.3.1[1] it even seems to be defined as normative:
> […]
> | The body element exposes as event handler content attributes a number
> | of the event handlers of the Window object. It also mirrors their
> | event handler IDL attributes.
> |
> | The onblur, onerror, onfocus, onload, onresize, and onscroll event
> | handlers of the Window object, exposed on the body element, replace
> | the generic event handlers with the same names normally supported by
> | HTML elements.
> 
> [1]
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-html5-20141028/sections.html#the-body-element>

Indeed they did.  While I still think it was a mistake to do this – one 
should be able to tell apart when loading of each of window, document and 
document body has been completed –, it would appear that the bug turned 
quasi-standard has prevailed over such considerations and is now a standard 
(bug).

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