Re: window.event and Event.srcElement from Dave Methvin on 2013-03-25 (public-webapps@w3.org from January to March 2013)

From: Dave Methvin <dave.methvin@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:19:04 -0700
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Cc: David Bruant <bruant.d@gmail.com>, public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <CACnq-u+srpJ-yzJUEpNPogQO0Lf9sf49EzgnBaw_a7nM0HDaYA@mail.gmail.com>

> Basically, either UAs that currently implement window.event remove it or
> it's clearly required for web compat and hence needs to be specified so
> other UAs can implement it.  I don't see any other sane options; do you?
>
> I'm okay with the first one. Is that a real option? I've never seen
anything but old IE code intentionally use window.event, and it seems like
the uses on SO could easily be from clueless people doing the copy-pasta on
very old code.

Received on Monday, 25 March 2013 19:19:32 UTC