Re: textInput --> beforeInput

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:
>> 2. Fire beforeInput for any user-action that modifies the DOM, not just
>> actions that cause text to get inserted.
>
> That's more like a mutation event, not a 'textInput' event, and mutation
> events are pretty widely reviled by implementers (though useful when
> implemented); they seem to be difficult to implement efficiently.  We have
> deprecated Mutation Events in DOM3 Events, though there are still going to
> be implementations for a while.

What counts as "any user-action" here? If we're talking about things
like copy-paste and drag'n'drop then it won't have any of the problems
that mutations events have.

/ Jonas

Received on Friday, 27 August 2010 21:21:46 UTC