300076 - The element the binding applies to flashes (and all document flashes if binding applies to body)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: XBL, defect)

Description

[Rotem Liss]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050617 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050617 Firefox/1.0.4

When applying a binding to an element, it flashes (becomes hidden, than visible
again for a second). When applying a binding to the body element, all the body
flashes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the testcases.
Actual Results:  
The element specified in the title flashes.

Expected Results:  
No elements flashes.

Comment 1

[Rotem Liss]

Attachment: The XBL binding

Comment 2

[Rotem Liss]

Attachment: Body Binding

Comment 3

[Rotem Liss]

Attachment: All Divs Binding

Comment 4

[Rotem Liss]

Attachment: All Paragraphs Binding

Comment 5

[Rotem Liss]

Attachment: Specific Paragraph (P4) Binding

By the way, here it takes more time to load, and the "flash" is longer.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is by-design.  Once the binding style is changed, the old layout object is
destroyed; the new one is not created until the binding actually finishes
loading.  The reason for this is that we never want to have layout objects for a
node that has binding style but a not-fully-loaded binding.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So invalid.