Closed Bug 1189770 Opened 9 years ago Closed 7 years ago

document-element-inserted documentation is confusing at best

Categories

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Add-ons, defect)

Product:
Developer Documentation Graveyard
Component:
Add-ons
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: arantius, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
Build ID: 20150629114848

Steps to reproduce:

https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Observer_Notifications#Documents 

Says: "document-element-inserted 	... Sent immediately after the root element of a document has been created ..."

But in actuality, it happens some time after some generally unpredictable set of the document has already been appended to the DOM.  (For more context: https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/issues/1849#issuecomment-126708082 ).  Sometimes it seems to happen when <body> is created, sometimes a <script>, if there happens to be one in <head>.

I don't know if the documentation or the implementation is wrong, but they do not appear to match.  What I want is there to be a document, with perhaps a <head> and <body>, but no other nodes.  What the documentation says implies that is the case.  Experiment shows it is not.
URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d...
Component: Untriaged → Add-ons
Product: Firefox → Developer Documentation
See Also: → https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/issues/1849#issuecomment-126708082
Version: 39 Branch → unspecified
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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