Re: Event handler proliferation

MZ writes:
   Continuously adding event handlers to the HTML spec does not seem like a
   good idea.

Yep. See my article in JASIS [1] and my comment on extending HTML in the
XML FAQ [2]. 

Event handlers should ideally be declared as entities using a notation
for the language. Let's hope the browser makers don't repeat the
mistake with XML in the rush to beat the other crowd to the marketplace.

///Peter

[1] Flynn, P. W[h]ither the Web. JASIS 48:7 (July 1997) p.614
[2] http://www.ucc.ie/xml/faq.html#faq-extend

Received on Thursday, 25 September 1997 17:04:51 UTC