[whatwg] oninput for contentEditable

Olli Pettay Olli.Pettay at helsinki.fi
Wed Jun 24 11:51:27 PDT 2009


On 6/24/09 6:49 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:21:41 +0200, Olli Pettay
> <Olli.Pettay at helsinki.fi> wrote:
>> Why would you need "paste"? There is "paste" event
>> (though, not properly specified anywhere, I think);
>
> I'd think you want an event that covers all editing actions. Also,
> that's what the input event does for <input>.
>
> By the way, did anyone ever implement textInput from DOM Level 3 Events?
> If not maybe someone should email www-dom about "nuking" that.
>
>
Why would you want to nuke textInput? Perhaps textInput (in some 
extended form) could be used for contentEditable and we could deprecate
input event. textInput has the advantage that it has .data

-Olli



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