[Javascript] Poorly documented facet of cross-frame execution

[karma lama]

can somne one please REMOVE my email from this lsit.

thanks
karma

--- Peter-Paul Koch <gassinaumasis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> >   However, the bit about NOT using the document
> appendage to the DOM 
> >description of an item in the header is
> demonstrably true (and will break 
> >if you insert it).
> 
> I don't dispute the fact, merely your explanation (I
> assume you're talking 
> about the cross-frame example here).
> 
> >   Also, if you write a tree-walk of the elements
> within a document.form in 
> >lieu of the simple-minded 'alert' I suggested,
> you'll often discover that 
> >some of the elements really AREN'T there (as I
> contended).
> 
> Odd. I never had the slightest problem with
> accessing form fields onLoad, 
> and I've done it countless times. Changing styles of
> elements, no problems 
> either. Can you post an example script?
> 
> > >From some preliminary testing, the easiest demos
> to build are ones in 
> >which multi-frame documents with lots of fields in
> every frame are used.  
> >The onLoad event gets triggered (it seems) when
> every frame is referenced 
> >by the parent frameset, and NOT when every field in
> every frame document is 
> >complete.  Thus, the frames at the bottom of the
> window are often only 
> >half-done when the event-handler is invoked.  Try
> it!  You'll see!
> 
> That's right, an onLoad in a frameset can cause
> quite some problems. I've 
> learned to avoid them.
> 
> 
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