- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 22:33:30 +0100
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 22:18:29 +0100, Dean Edwards <dean at edwards.name> wrote: > Erik Arvidsson wrote: > > > Matthew Raymond wrote: > > > >> Jim Ley wrote: > >> > >> [Snip.] > >> > >>> Why are HTC's the only solution? > > object initialisation is not the only thing that HTCs provide. they also > allow the provision of custom events. HTCs are the only way (that i know > of) where you can fire custom events which will then be picked up by > attached handlers. without this the "invalid" event would not be fully > supportable, although you can still use directly assigned event handlers: > element.oninvalid = somefunction; Can I just clarify that a _requirement_ of WF2 is that it is implementable using Internet Explorer Script Behaviors (HTCs) ? And that this is the consensus of the WHAT-WG ? (or is it one of those non-negotiable things, that we're just supposed to know about.) How are these oninvalid events dealt with in legacy FireFox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror etc. ? Jim.
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