Internet Explorer and the window.onload problem

Problems detecting HTML has completed loading ?

Internet Explorer is one of the few browser still missing a native way to determine when all the nodes of a page are completely loaded, before images and other binaries are loaded and before the "window.onload" event.

What does this means in the WEB2.0 era ?

This problem has adversely affected the development of widgets and applications for the WEB. Partial solutions already exists for IE since 2005.

However javascript widgets relying on these known methods happen to fail frequently in IE as soon as the page becomes slightly more complex.The objective of this site is to explore the "onload" problem and present stable alternatives to the already working ones...

Different needs different problems.

Also the general problem may be resolved with existing solutions, more specific problems needs the capability to be triggered at different stages in the page load process.

Some widget need to be triggered as soon as the browser is able to insert elements in the page to allow for what Peter Michaux call "early page enlivenment", while other scripts may depend on specific parts or all of the nodes being available.

Various project like "sIFR", "pngfix", "StyleSwitcher" and similar should build their own triggering system to avoid pitfall existing in the generic solutions.

The WEB is going to be the most interactive media, "Javascript" is going to handle that.

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