Re: [DOMCore] extensions to Event

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:49:17 -0700, Jacob Rossi  
<Jacob.Rossi@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Eventually, we'd like to remove these once sites no longer use them. I  
> haven't looked recently at usage data for these. Many of these were  
> aspects from IE's legacy event model. I suspect Gecko/Webkit added them  
> in order to improve compatibility.

Actually, those in Gecko are from XBL and the constants originate from  
Netscape I believe. Opera/WebKit have some extensions from IE.


> No. They're proprietary extensions that are either not useful or  
> duplicate functionality in the standards model.

Agreed, but if they are not removed we have to add them.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:21:17 UTC