Re: Should events be preferably sent to the Window or the nearest object?

On Mon, 7 Apr 2014, Marcos Caceres wrote:
> On March 20, 2014 at 2:30:55 PM, Marcos Caceres (w3c@marcosc.com) wrote:
> > On March 20, 2014 at 12:58:44 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> > > Agreed. The exact target isn't very important here, and so being 
> > > consistent with legacy event firing for the same system is probably 
> > > a good idea.
> >
> > Agree. Let's go with consistency, even though it feels a bit weird.
> 
> Ian, would it be possible to have some kind of hook in HTML to give us 
> this behaviour for free? 
> 
> That is, given an event handler IDL attribute on some interface, we get 
> the HTML attribute equivalent on body element (all wired up and ready to 
> be used). That would be useful in that we wouldn't need to define the 
> HTML onorientationchange attribute in the Orientation Lock spec (and all 
> future specs). This could really help with consistency.  

I'm very happy to add any such attributes to the HTML spec, just file a 
bug once you're confident that it won't change.

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