- From: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:49:46 -0700
- To: "Olli@pettay.fi" <olli@pettay.fi>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Adam Klein <adamk@google.com>, Rafael Weinstein <rafaelw@google.com>, Jonas Sicking <sicking@mozilla.com>
The old API is confusing. We can do better, so we should. On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>wrote: > On 03/12/2013 12:34 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Thoughts? >>> >> >> My main thought is that it's a pita to change the API at this time now >> it's unprefixed everywhere and we've been encouraging developers to >> use it in favor of mutation events. If Adam/Rafael/Olli/Jonas are >> willing to update WebKit/Gecko though I guess I don't really care. >> >> >> > We could keep the old behavior and extend it to support types. > But since the change isn't backward compatible (scripts using types > wouldn't work in > older browsers), I'd like to understand the need for the change. > > -Olli >
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