[whatwg] API design restrictions due to barewords in onxxx="" attributes

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
• Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:42:19 -0500
• Message-ID: <4ED14F2B.8020906@mit.edu>

On 11/26/11 1:03 AM, Yehuda Katz wrote:
> Honestly, before this discussion, I would have been surprised to hear
> that this works at all. It also seems to me that the group of people who
> know how to add an expando and the group of people who use onxxx= is
> pretty small to begin with.

This isn't about people doing it on purpose.  It's about people doing it 
by accident via copy/paste programming, which is the common case of 
using barewords in on* attributes to start with: people who do it have 
no idea _why_ that code works, just that they copied it from somewhere 
and that it works.

-Boris

Received on Saturday, 26 November 2011 12:42:19 UTC