[whatwg] hashchange only dispatched in history traversal
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Tue Sep 9 13:49:29 PDT 2008
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Garrett Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> HTML 5 expands "hashchange" to any element. Any element, such as div
> >> or pre? How can you know if an element supports "hashchange" or not?
>
> I still wonder about this.
>
> > Yes, but the benefit of being able to do <body onhashchange="">
> > outweighs the logicalness of dispatching events to the Location
> > object.
>
> I still wonder what the benefit is.
You feedback has been filed already and will be considered in due course:
http://www.whatwg.org/issues/#dom-events
Please be patient. There are literally thousands of e-mails that will need
to be dealt with before yours.
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