[Bug 18542] onmousewheel attribute should be replaced with onwheel

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18542

--- Comment #8 from Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> 2012-09-13 14:26:23 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> I don't think that onmousewheel is used for D3E WheelEvent. It's used for the
> legacy mousewheel event on IE, Opera and WebKit browsers. Only IE9 and Fx17
> implemented the D3E WheelEvent. Therefore, I don't think the change breaks
> existing web pages. "onmousewheel" should be available for the legacy
> (unstandardized) event handler actually, but I think that HTML5 spec shouldn't
> define such event handler attribute.

Sorry but I'm not entirely certain that I understand what changes you would
like to see. Here is what I understand, please tell me if I get it right.

You would like the HTML spec to drop onmousewheel. Reason: At least Firefox
doesn't support it and doesn't plan to (according to
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/DOM_event_reference/mousewheel).
If that's indeed the case, it seems like a good reason to drop it (requires
confirmation though).

Furthermore, you are asking that HTML define the "onwheel" attribute. Am I
correctly guessing that by that you mean just the on* attribute but for what it
actually does refer to D3E?

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Received on Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:26:29 UTC