Re: [Htmlunit-user] Re: Javascript problem

[Dave K. <dko...@ve...>]

This may well be beyond the intended functionality scope of HTMLUnit, so do 
feel free to
tell me to bugger off...

I've been having some trouble with a page with javascript - the 
functionality contained in the
javascript seems to not be working when run with htmlunit.   In particular, 
an onload() function
set in the javascript does not execute.

The code in question (and I must emphasize that this isn't my code, but 
rather code inserted
by a 3rd-party software utility to do performance monitoring of web pages) 
works as follows:
Javascript in the original html page does a document.write() to bring in 2 
files from the web
server containing additional javascript code.  That javascript code in turn 
gathers a bunch of data
then does another document.write() to insert more javascript code into the 
page.  That second
document.write() adds function definitions for window.load() and 
window.unload().

It seems that as long as the onload function is defined in javascript in 
the original html page, the
function gets executed fine.  However, with the onload function being set 
as a result of the code
added via document.write(), it does not get executed.  Tracing the call to 
executeOnLoadHandlersIfNeeded
shows that, at the time it is called, the onload function has not yet been 
defined.

So I guess my question is, would this be considered a bug (since the 
behavior differs from that in a
browser)?  Or is such functionality beyond the current scope of the software?

Thanks for all the help so far.
Dave