-----Original Message----- From: Simon Pieters [mailto:simonp@opera.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:51 PM To: public-html@w3.org; Travis Leithead Cc: Adrian Bateman Subject: Re: HTML5 Feedback: Event bubbling and various event handler DOM attributes On Wed, 19 May 2010 20:28:52 +0200, Travis Leithead <travil@microsoft.com<mailto:travil@microsoft.com>> wrote: > focus/blur and readystatechange DOM attributes? > > Similarly to the above argument, the readystatechange event fires at > the document and does not bubble, yet a DOM attribute is defined on > the Window interface for "onreadystatechange." Also, blur/focus events > _may_ fire on Window, and do fire on Elements, but because they also > don't bubble, their event handler DOM attributes on the HTMLDocument > interface seems somewhat odd. > > What is the design principle for this? I think the design principle here is to expose all event handlers on all of Window, HTMLDocument and HTMLElement, for consistency and ease of impl. The exception is event handlers for <marquee>. If that’s the design principle then I can agree with it; I just suspect that others will ask the same question, and wondered if there was more to it.
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