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Bug 18298 - "The script element gets inserted into a document." - is the order defined if multiple script elements are simultaneously inserted? What about the relative order of other things that happen on insertion and script elements?
Summary: "The script element gets inserted into a document." - is the order defined if...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 18:00 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2015-06-17 06:18 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 18:00:27 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 17543 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-06-19 09:25:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-06-19 09:25:36 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-script-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-script-element

Comment:
"The script element gets inserted into a document." - is the order defined if
multiple script elements are simultaneously inserted? What about the relative
order of other things that happen on insertion and script elements?

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 #1   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2012-06-21 06:32:02 +0000 
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Yeah, this isn't defined.

Unless there's a compat reason not to, my inclination is to define execution as happening after the mutation listeners, in tree order (pre-order, depth-first traversal).
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 #2   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2012-06-21 06:37:41 +0000 
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See also bug 17529.
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 #3   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2012-07-12 19:43:10 +0000 
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(this will probably use the hook from bug 17530)
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Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2015-06-17 04:56:14 UTC 
See https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17880

A change for this has already been in the spec for quite a while.