- From: Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:18:32 +1100
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- CC: DOM public list <www-dom@w3.org>
Message Events (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.postMessage) also have the data property, but I don't know if jQuery will be supporting them with its events system. On 13/01/10 11:50 AM, Doug Schepers wrote: > Hi, Sean- > > Sean Hogan wrote (on 1/12/10 7:19 PM): >> >> It just occured to me that the data property of TextEvent clashes with >> jQuery Events, which uses the data property for " optional data passed >> to jQuery.fn.bind when the current executing handler was bound." >> See >> http://api.jquery.com/category/events/event-object/ >> and >> http://api.jquery.com/event.data/ > > Thanks for alerting us to this unfortunate design. Without looking > too deeply at it yet, this does seem problematic. > > >> TextEvent.data (and there textInput events) support in jQuery will be >> confusing (at minimum). >> To my knowledge only Webkit supports TextEvents and I can't imagine many >> developers actually using them yet, so it might not break anything to >> change it now. > > There may be other (non-browser) implementations using it. I'd like > to hear from them. > > >> Perhaps "text" or "textData" would be an acceptable name. > > "value" might also serve. > > We'll look into it and talk about it at the telcon. > > Regards- > -Doug Schepers > W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs >
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