[whatwg] onerror

Jonas Sicking jonas at sicking.cc
Sat Jan 17 13:57:10 PST 2009


On 1/17/09, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:24:56 +0100, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
>> I'm talking about parity with other onX attributes inside workers.
>>
>> But I'd be fine with changing onX for other objects if all other
>> browsers do something else, but thats orthogonal to the issue I
>> originally brought up in this thread.
>
> Not quite, because I'd like HTML5 onX attributes to do the same as Web
> Workers onX attributes. (And the same for where else there are onX
> attributes, e.g. XMLHttpRequest.)

Thats fine, but I think we are going to make some exceptions on the
window object due I the risk of collisions with global variables.  We
do that with many other things than onX properties.

/ Jonas



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