Re: window.event and Event.srcElement

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:

> 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.


I've filed an issue to see if there's any chance of getting it removed from
Chrome: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=223749

Received on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 00:24:55 UTC