HTML5 onpopstate on page load

Question

I\'m using the new HTML5 onpopstate event. Using Firefox 4 the window.onpopstate event is triggered on a page load whilst in Webkit this does not seem to be the case.

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Answer 1

The popstate event is fired in certain cases when navigating to a session history entry.

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#event-popstate

From my understanding, though I could be wrong, seeing as loading the page does mean history is created and traversed to, yes, it should be fired on page load.

Also see,

http://www.mail-archive.com/whatwg@lists.whatwg.org/msg19722.html

and,

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/DOM/Manipulating_the_browser_history