[Greasemonkey] addEventListener, DOMNodeInserted event in GM user script

Tue Mar 7 09:35:01 EST 2006

On 3/7/06, Brian Donovan <bdonovan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Given:
>
> document.addEventListener('DOMNodeInserted',function(){alert('DOMNodeInserted
> !');},true);
> window.addEventListener('load',function(){alert('load !');},true);
>
> Why is it that both of the following alerts will pop up in Firefox
> when the following lines are placed within a script tag within a page
> but only the latter (for the window.onload event) will pop when those
> lines are present in a GM user script?

DOMNodeInserted fires when a child node is inserted. For document,
that would be when the <html> element is inserted. I would presume
that the element is inserted before DOMLoaded for HTML (not XHTML)
pages, which allow progressive loading.

This is my best guess, unverified.