- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 05:22:47 -0800
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org>
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Jonas Sicking wrote: >> Do we really only want to do this for HTML attributes? It's not a >> particularly beautiful thing to do, but on the other hand it's always >> nice when things behave everywhere. > > Well, this behavior is pretty much limited to HTML onfoo="" attributes, > you don't have it for SVG onfoo="" attributes in most implementations, > or addEventListener listeners, or <script> listeners, ... and since you > would ultimiately have to change handleEvent's signature, I don't think > that is a good idea. My suggestion was only to do this for onfoo attributes. Not for addEventListener calls or <script> listeners. So there is no need to change the signature of handleEvent. > Note that this isn't as simple as if the return > value is false: preventDefault; what you do depends on the event type. Are you referring to the fact that for the mouseover event (or was it some other mouse* event?) the return value should be true to call preventDefault? / Jonas
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