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:

    //Main Startup Code
    
    function checkDOM(){
        if (document.getElementById("footer")
         || document.getElementById("credit")) 
            Startup();
        else
            setTimeout("checkDOM();",100);
    }
    
    if (document.addEventListener)
        document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", Startup, null);
    else 
        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:

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

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