[whatwg] <output> and onforminput

Jim Ley jim.ley at gmail.com
Sun Jun 20 17:48:04 PDT 2004


On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:17:23 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > First of all, why isn't it "this.value = a.vlaue * b.value"?
> 
> The "this" is implied; see
> 
>   http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#scopeResolution

Which is a slightly spurious piece of spec, since the scope resolution
has not been standardised before despite what the text implies, and
this is not backwards compatible with legacy browsers, despite what
the whole point of the WHATWG spec is supposed to be.

Jim.



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