[webkit-dev] Is this a possible source of test flakiness?

[Adam Barth]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Xianzhu Wang wrote:
>> My question is: Is this kind of usage (referencing a later-defined function in onload event handler) correct in theory?
>
> Yes.
>
> The contents of the onload attribute don’t matter until the load event fires, which is after the script element has been parsed.
>
>> Will it cause flakiness?
>
> No.

In theory, it could, right?  If there was a network packet break
between the two and the parser returned to the main event loop and the
scheduler loaded the iframe load first.  Seems unlikely but possible.

Adam