- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:06:39 -0700
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
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 think transitionend is sufficiently useful to justify an on* attribute.) ~TJ
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