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

On 4/7/14 5:33 PM, ext Mounir Lamouri wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps it would be good then to file a bug for the Screen Orientation 
spec and/or to add a related note to the ED. WDYT?

-AB

Received on Wednesday, 9 April 2014 14:02:37 UTC