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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.

Which is the correct behaviour?

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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/[email protected]/msg19722.html

and,

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Manipulating_the_browser_history

Delan Azabani
There seems to be so e ambiguity between Firefox and Webkit on this one. Currently, Webkit does not fire onpopstate during a page load.
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