Firefox's pageshow and pagehide events not DOM2 events-compatible?
Wednesday, 14. March 2007, 16:27:35
These events sound quite interesting and author friendly. But unless I'm missing something their current implementation in Firefox simply sucks!
I tried
No go. Then I tried window.addEventListener but that doesn't work either. Finally, I looked at the sample code and noticed it only shows DOM0-style event handlers -
Really?? That makes the events pretty useless. I would like Opera to support similar events but Firefox's implementation looks too broken to copy. Tell me I'm missing something..
I tried
document.addEventListener( 'pageShow', function(e){ log('pageshow fired'); }, false );
document.addEventListener( 'pageHide', function(e){ log('pagehide fired'); }, false );No go. Then I tried window.addEventListener but that doesn't work either. Finally, I looked at the sample code and noticed it only shows DOM0-style event handlers -
<body onPageShow="...".
Really?? That makes the events pretty useless. I would like Opera to support similar events but Firefox's implementation looks too broken to copy. Tell me I'm missing something..
