[whatwg] oninput for contentEditable

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Wed Jun 24 14:26:37 PDT 2009


On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:51:27 +0200, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay at helsinki.fi>  
wrote:
> 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

If that is useful why not add .data to the input event object? The input  
event is already deployed. Why do we need to introduce a new version and  
duplicate functionality? DOM Level 3 Events is still a WD.


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