- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:20:05 +0100 (BST)
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer <sebastian@dreamlab.net>, public-html@w3.org
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Henri Sivonen wrote: > Browsers need to be interoperable when the input is > non-conforming. For example, if the expressions have side effects, > the side effects should guaranteed to happen under the same > conditions and in the same order in different browsers. Browsers conform to a variety of standards and they also introduce varations of their own, in part due to innovation, but also due to inevitable differences in the development process and in adhererence to the spirit and the letter of standards. In many cases, standards represent the aspects of behavior that people were able to reach agreement on and leave out the areas where they were not, e.g. due to a need for backwards compatibility with previous implementations or a difference in commercial focus and development priorities. It is therefore impractical to guarantee exactly the same behavior for all scripts for event handlers and yet who would argue that event handlers should be dropped. The same holds true for an declarative representation of event handlers. You would throw the baby out with the bath water as we say in in the UK. Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
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