Re: Spec event wording suggestion.

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Ric Hardacre wrote:
>
> Throughout the spec a phrase similar to the following is used (square
> brackets indicate link to simple event definition):
> 
> "[fire a simple event] that bubbles called change at the element,"
> 
> 
> The english is hard to follow and I also suggest that "called" is replaced
> with "named" to remove some ambiguity about wether or not it is referring
> to "calling" a function:
> 
> "fire a [bubbling simple event] named change at the element,"

I've changed 'called' to 'named' throughout.


> The definition of the simple event would not need changing to accomodate
> the above:
> 
> "which does not bubble (unless otherwise stated)"

I haven't changed 'fire a simple event' to 'fire a bubbling simple event' 
because there are so many axes that are affected, e.g. whether the event 
is cancelable, what it's various attributes should be, etc.

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