Re: SVGT 1.2: "evt" vs "event" as the implicit event argument to event handlers

On Apr 24, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

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> On Apr 24, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Chris Lilley wrote:
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>> On Friday, April 21, 2006, 11:37:17 PM, Maciej wrote:
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>> MS> A) I agree that changing what "event" or "evt" means for XHTML or
>> MS> HTML event handler attributes is out of scope for SVG.
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>> When you say "changing", which is the published specification that  
>> would
>> change? I ask because as far as we can tell there isn't one. But  
>> yes if
>> this were to change W3C-wide it would be WebAPI that would likely own
>> that spec.
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> Right now it is unspecified but there is a common de facto  
> practice. If someone were to standardize how HTML event listener  
> attributes work, ideally it would be a group working on an HTML  
> standard. Web API

Meant to say: "Web API is probably not the best forum for redefining  
what HTML means, but may be an acceptable last resort."

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Monday, 24 April 2006 20:12:22 UTC