- From: Florian Rivoal <florianr@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:26:19 +0200
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:06:39 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:44 AM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> > wrote: >> I was under the impression that these attributes were seen as a >> backwards-compatibility feature and plan in the DOM events world was >> to not add them for new events. But I could be wrong there. >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#EventTarget-onfoo doesn't >> say anything about that other than saying the attributes are >> language-specific. >> >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/webappapis.html#event-handler-content-attributes >> doesn't say which events have event handler content attributes in >> HTML5, though I bet something in HTML5 does. > > Nope, they're just added "as needed", when it makes sense to have a > content attribute for the event listener. I too was thinking that they were added "as needed for backward compatibility", and I am not overly interested in adding them for other reasons. Not a strong objection, but that's were my preference goes. - Florian
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