Re: on* attributes on DOM elements

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
• Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:57:39 -0400
• To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
• CC: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, whatwg <whatwg@whatwg.org>
• Message-ID: <4DFB8783.7070802@mit.edu>

On 6/17/11 8:49 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Fri, 27 May 2011 21:11:59 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
>> It looks like Gecko, Presto, and Webkit all support on* event
>> attributes on all DOM elements, not just HTMLElement.
>>
>> IE9 seems to only support them on HTMLElement.
>>
>> I would propose that these be supported on all Elements at least for
>> events that are not element-specific (e.g. "click").
>
> Should they move to DOM Core then? (I.e. those that are generic.)

That would make the most sense to me.

-Boris

Received on Friday, 17 June 2011 16:58:08 UTC