[whatwg] <output> and onforminput

Jim Ley jim.ley at gmail.com
Sun Jun 20 18:09:34 PDT 2004


On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 01:53:22 +0100, Dean Edwards <dean at edwards.name> wrote:
> Jim Ley wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> "onforminput" won't be triggered by legacy browsers. however, it is
> probably bad practice to include these kinds of examples in the spec.

Still doesn't change the justification in the spec being somewhat
dubious, since the cited references don't describe the behaviour.

Jim.



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