DOMContentLoaded and Safari

2005-10-14 @ 10:09:39

javascript

here.

Often, you will want some scripts to run when the page has loaded, even if the images on it haven’t. I wrote up some stuff about this under Best pre-onload. My full onDOMReady script looks like:

 1     //Main Startup Code
 2     
 3     function checkDOM(){
 4         if (document.getElementById("footer")
 5          || document.getElementById("credit")) 
 6             Startup();
 7         else
 8             setTimeout("checkDOM();",100);
 9     }
10     
11     if (document.addEventListener)
12         document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", Startup, null);
13     else 
14         setTimeout("checkDOM();",100);

However, Safari will not load pages that use this, since it has document.addEventListener, but does not create DOMContentLoaded events. So, I had to create a nasty little browser check rule:

1     if (document.addEventListener && (navigator.vendor != "Apple Computer, Inc."))

I’d rather not have to do things like this. Why not?