[Bug 24184] References undefined type EventHandler

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24184

--- Comment #2 from Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> ---
(In reply to Boris Zbarsky from comment #1)
> EventHandler is defined at
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/webappapis.html#eventhandler
> and equivalent in the WHATWG HTML spec.

I know that. But that definition is not referenced.

> 
> I agree that the instances of EventHandler in the IDL in websocket API
> should link to that definition.  However, note that
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/#dependencies explicitly notes that a
> number of fundamental concepts from the HTML specification are used in this
> one, and EventHandler is one of those.  Just like EventTarget is actually
> coming from the DOM specification here.

Any externally defined type needs to be explicitly linked or cited, not
included in a general "fundamental concepts" clause.

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Received on Thursday, 2 January 2014 13:23:53 UTC