- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:38:14 -0500
- To: XForms <public-forms@w3c.org>
- CC: public-hypertext-cg@w3.org, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
Hi, XForms folks (& sundry interested parties)- I previously mentioned to you that the DOMActivate, DOMFocusIn, and DOMFocusOut were being considered for deprecation in DOM3 Events. After looking into the matter closely and talking with various invested parties, I've now deprecated them in current drafts of the spec [1]. I've explained some of the rationale for this in the HCG [2]. Note that this is deprecation, not removal... I took pains to fit them into the more precise coherent model we've worked out for DOM3 Events. Given XForms' use of DOMActivate in particular, I have put special provision to explain its place in the event flow for activation triggering and activation behavior [3]. Going forward, the XForms specs can continue to define DOMActivate [4], DOMFocusIn [5], and DOMFocusOut [6] as they already do, and implementations of XForms can maintain backwards compatibility with existing content. Going forward, the XForms WG may wish to consider taking a fresh look at events as specified in DOM3 Events, which is rather more detailed than previous DOM events specs and tries to align more closely with actual implemented behavior, to see if aspects of it might be useful to XForms. [1] http://dev.w3.org//2006/webapi/DOM-Level-3-Events/html/DOM3-Events.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-hypertext-cg/2010JanMar/0001.html [3] http://dev.w3.org//2006/webapi/DOM-Level-3-Events/html/DOM3-Events.html#event-flow-activation [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/#evt-activate [5] http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/#evt-DOMFocusIn [6] http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/#evt-DOMFocusOut Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
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