- From: Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:36:50 -0600
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
- Cc: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, "T. V. Raman" <tvraman@almaden.ibm.com>
Although I am very happy that XML Events encourages the declaration of events and handlers orthogonally with respect to the content markup, IMO a major omission is that target attribute of listener is only an IDREF. It is common that a particular listener (event + handler) needs to be applied to large number of content nodes (elements), and it would nice if target attribute provided a way to classify versus redundant declarations. For example, look at the new CSS TreeMenu I coded on the (left frame of) following page, and note that the same onclick event and handler is declared for nearly every node of the tree: http://coolpagehelp.com What is needed is some way to specify a set (a class) of elements to which the same listener could be assigned. Perhaps there is some way to leverage CSS's selectors technology for specifying targets or using CSS to assign listeners to selectors. -Shelby Moore
Received on Monday, 16 December 2002 12:38:42 UTC