Re: [whatwg] Should onfoo event handler properties be on Element or HTMLElement?

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
• Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:09:44 -0500
• To: Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com>, whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
• Message-ID: <52E04FB8.5040604@mit.edu>

On 1/22/14 9:06 AM, Erik Dahlström wrote:
> In SVG2 most of the events with "SVG" event name prefixes have been
> removed[4], e.g "SVGLoad" is now a plain "load", which means they follow
> the pattern for event handler content attributes.
>
> SVGResize, SVGScroll and SVGZoom still remain to be fixed in the spec.
> Of these only SVGZoom lacks an existing unprefixed counterpart, so that
> would be a possible addition to GlobalEventHandlers with the event name
> "zoom".
>
> My question is: what should be done with the SVG specific event
> handlers? Should they be added to GlobalEventHandlers, or should they be
> just on SVGElement?

Or neither, if desired.  In Gecko we don't expose the SVG* properties in 
IDL at all...

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2014 23:10:11 UTC