Re: Spec for [Global] does not seem to be quite web-compatible, and none of the UAs are really compatible with each other from Boris Zbarsky on 2014-01-09 (public-script-coord@w3.org from January to March 2014)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:18:45 -0500
To: Erik Arvidsson <arv@chromium.org>
CC: "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
Message-ID: <52CEE805.1050407@mit.edu>

On 1/9/14 1:08 PM, Erik Arvidsson wrote:
> My bad. I was referring to a different thread where someone (you?)
> wanted to move everything off of Window.prototype to the window
> instance. Let me find that thread and comment there.

OK.  The location of the event handler properties is somewhat orthogonal 
to their behavior; it just happens that if they're on the proto the 
behavior can be old Gecko/Blink one and still be web-compatible.

Sounds like we agree on the behavior, which is good.  The location we 
can argue over in that other thread.

> Remember that it is only an issue in global code.

Yes, I know.  The bug reports we got indicated that these patterns are 
quite commonly used in global code.  :(

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:19:16 UTC