- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 22:54:58 +0900
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Jochen Eisinger <eisinger@google.com>, François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:55 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote: > On Monday 2014-05-19 21:45 +0900, Simon Pieters wrote: >> Yes. The wording in the resolution might not include it but we >> discussed it and my understanding is that we're adding .onchange >> also. > > Are those single-event-listener properties really best practice for > adding new event types? They seem rather like footguns, in that > they break if more than one caller tries to use them (although > admittedly that's a bit less of a problem for MediaQueryList objects > since they're likely created by the same caller, at least in their > current use). > > (I don't recall that part of the discussion, though I was searching > list archives for a bit of it.) Yes, it's a footgun, but it's also super-convenient and expected by authors, so we virtually always add them. ~TJ
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