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Comment by netnichols

They probably don't care about that content.

My first guess would be that they snapshot the DOM in the JS tick immediately after window.onload completes. Maybe they have a short pause to let any fast timeouts or callbacks complete, but there's got to be a cutoff at some point (e.g. to stop an infinite wait for pages that continuously update a relative date). Of course, with their own JS engine, I bet they can get really fancy with the heuristics to determine when to take that snapshot.

parent netnichols 11 years ago

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