- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:55:01 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote: > > I was wondering why most of the events attributes are defined as global > attributes (i.e. available on all HTML elements): > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/elements.html#global-attributes > > The specs mentions that: > "While these attributes apply to all elements, they are not > useful on all elements. For example, only media elements will > ever receive a volumechange event fired by the user agent." > Why couldn't these events attributes only be defined for the relevant > elements then? It makes implementations easier. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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