[whatwg] [wf2] change event

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Dec 1 15:13:01 PST 2005


On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Ian Hickson wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> >
> > Section 4.2 states: "Change and input events must never be triggered by scripted
> > changes to the control value."
> > 
> > Section 2.13 states: "Whenever the value attribute changes (whether directly or
> > because the DOM under the element was mutated), a change event is fired on the
> > output element."
> > 
> > That contradicts each other, no?
> 
> <output> is not a control.

Oh, actually, it seems that it is. I'll fix the spec to exclude <output> 
from the "never" clause you quoted. Oops.

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