readystate

I'm trying to help developing a library and for it I'm trying to work with page loading. In the process I want to make the library completely compatible with the use of defer and async. What I want is simple: How can I know that DOMContentLoaded was fired by the time the file is executed? Why is this so difficult? In IE, document.readyState show interactive before DOMContentLoaded. I won't use browser detection in any way, it's against the policy of me and the rest of the participants. What's the correct alternative? Edit: Seems like I wasn't clear enough. I'm not interested to know if the

Is there a foolproof way for the script to wait till the Internet explorer is completely loaded? Both oIE.Busy and / or oIE.ReadyState are not working the way they should: Set oIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.application") oIE.Visible = True oIE.navigate ("http://technopedia.com") Do While oIE.Busy Or oIE.ReadyState <> 4: WScript.Sleep 100: Loop ' <<<<< OR >>>>>> Do While oIE.ReadyState <> 4: WScript.Sleep 100: Loop Any other suggestions? Try this one, it helped me to solve similar problem with IE once: Set oIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.application") oIE.Visible = True oIE.navigate

This has been awnsered many times here and at other sites and its working, but I would like ideas to other ways to: get the ReadyState = Complete after using a navigate or post, without using DoEvents because of all of its cons. I would also note that using the DocumentComplete event woud not help here as I wont be navigating on only one page, but one after another like this. wb.navigate("www.microsoft.com") //dont use DoEvents loop here wb.Document.Body.SetAttribute(textbox1, "login") //dont use DoEvents loop here if (wb.documenttext.contais("text")) //do something The way it is today its