html5/spec Overview.html,1.4599,1.4600

Update of /sources/public/html5/spec
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Modified Files:
	Overview.html 
Log Message:
Add some suggestions for how to do experimental events with vendor prefixes (whatwg r5737)

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@@ -3091,6 +3091,19 @@
   members should be prefixed by vendor-specific strings to prevent
   clashes with future versions of this specification.</p>
 
+  <p>For events, experimental event names should be prefixed with
+  vendor-specific strings.</p>
+
+  <div class="example">
+
+   <p>For example, if a user agent called "Pleas<!--e h-->old" were to
+   add an event to indicate when the user is going up in an elevator,
+   it could use the prefix "<code title="">pleasold</code>" and thus
+   name the event "<code title="">pleasoldgoingup</code>", possibly
+   with an event handler attribute named "<code title="">onpleasoldgoingup</code>".</p>
+
+  </div>
+
   <p>All extensions must be defined so that the use of extensions
   neither contradicts nor causes the non-conformance of functionality
   defined in the specification.</p> <!-- thanks to QA Framework -->

Received on Sunday, 2 January 2011 04:01:45 UTC