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Ian Hickson (2014-06-10T18:01:07.000Z)

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(I first tried to send this last week, but it seems the es-discuss
mailman is filtering some of my mail as spam or something?)

Hello,

I've been working with jorendorff to try to write a description of the
Loader part of the ES6 spec, to make sure I have a good grip of what the
spec says before I look at how I need to hook into it to define the Web's
dependency mechanism in the context of HTML Imports, etc.

As part of this, I'm trying to understand how I should hook the HTML spec
into the ES6 spec for the purposes of regular <script> execution.

Is my understanding correct that the HTML spec should invoke this
algorithm when the HTML spec creates the Window object?:

   http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-initialization

If so, what should the browser do in step 7? I don't fully understand how
this is supposed to work. Suppose a page is just:

   <body>
   <script> alert(document.body.innerHTML); </script>
   <script> alert(document.body.innerHTML); </script>

If I read the #sec-initialization algorithm correctly, the scripts will
execute back-to-back with no change in the DOM, so they'll output the same
text. But the Web requires that these output different text, since the
second <script> element won't be in the DOM when the first executes:

   http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/3051

Should I just say to invoke that algorithm but skip steps 6-8?

(Also, how could step 6's substeps ever get triggered?)

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domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2014-06-17T20:36:42.125Z)

I've been working with jorendorff to try to write a description of the
Loader part of the ES6 spec, to make sure I have a good grip of what the
spec says before I look at how I need to hook into it to define the Web's
dependency mechanism in the context of HTML Imports, etc.

As part of this, I'm trying to understand how I should hook the HTML spec
into the ES6 spec for the purposes of regular <script> execution.

Is my understanding correct that the HTML spec should invoke this
algorithm when the HTML spec creates the Window object? http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-initialization

If so, what should the browser do in step 7? I don't fully understand how
this is supposed to work. Suppose a page is just:

```html
<body>
<script> alert(document.body.innerHTML); </script>
<script> alert(document.body.innerHTML); </script>
```

If I read the #sec-initialization algorithm correctly, the scripts will
execute back-to-back with no change in the DOM, so they'll output the same
text. But the Web requires that these output different text, since the
second <script> element won't be in the DOM when the first executes: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/3051

Should I just say to invoke that algorithm but skip steps 6-8?

(Also, how could step 6's substeps ever get triggered?)

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