- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:47:45 +0000
- To: Dave Methvin <dave.methvin@gmail.com>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, David Bruant <bruant.d@gmail.com>, public-webapps@w3.org
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Dave Methvin <dave.methvin@gmail.com> wrote: >> Basically, either UAs that currently implement window.event remove it or >> it's clearly required for web compat and hence needs to be specified so >> other UAs can implement it. I don't see any other sane options; do you? > > I'm okay with the first one. Is that a real option? I've never seen anything > but old IE code intentionally use window.event, and it seems like the uses > on SO could easily be from clueless people doing the copy-pasta on very old > code. If you can get it removed from WebKit or even just Chrome, it might be. If that's not happening soon (e.g. indication of it happening nowish, removal within a month or so), I think we're stuck with this and we'll standardize and move on. Gecko needs at least one "look it breaks in browser X too" leg to stand on, really. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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