Re: Moving Form Events from DOM3 Events to HTML5

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:05:11 +0200, Steven Pemberton  
<Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:50:09 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>  
> wrote:
>> E.g. HTML5 has a readystatechange event that is dispatched on the  
>> Document object. It does not need to refer to XMLHttpRequest for that  
>> or vice versa. They are separate events that just happen to have the  
>> same name and all the same properties.
>
> This is fine if they are identically named and have identical semantics.

They don't have identical semantics. That is, the readystatechange events  
are dispatched for very different reasons.


> But if the semantics diverge and they then both turn up in the same DOM,  
> you're in deep porridge. This is one of the values of defining one thing  
> once.

I certainly agree with the general idea of defining common things once.  
But is that really the case here? The processing model for XForms and HTML  
Forms is quite different.


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Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/

Received on Wednesday, 23 September 2009 11:16:23 UTC