[selection-api] onselectstart/onselectionchange attributes

• From: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>
• Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 19:14:43 -0800
• To: public-webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
• Cc: Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan@mozilla.com>, Olli Pettay <olli@pettay.fi>, Gary Kačmarčík <garykac@google.com>
• Message-id: <7EC7FF72-E0F4-4811-B9E6-2DC423ECAF33@apple.com>

Hi,

It looks like browsers don't agree on where `onselectstart` and `onselectionchange` IDL attributes should be defined:
https://github.com/w3c/selection-api/issues/54
https://github.com/w3c/selection-api/issues/60

In particular, Blink/WebKit/Trident all defines onselectstart/onselectionchange on Document, not GlobalEventHandlers.  Gecko defines them on both.

Both Blink and WebKit supports onselectionchange content attribute on body element (as far as I could recall, I implemented onselectionchange that way to match Trident's behavior at the time in http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/79208).

I think the cleanest approach is to add it to GlobalEventHandlers to be consistent with other events.  What do you guys think?

- R. Niwa

Received on Sunday, 10 January 2016 03:15:14 UTC