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

On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, at 8:37, Ian Hickson wrote:
> 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.

When we will be in LC and close to CR, I will file a bug to remove the
monkey patching I am doing on the HTML spec.

-- Mounir

Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2014 00:33:55 UTC