[whatwg] Why are media event handlers defined on HTMLElement instead of HTMLMediaElement
Philip Jägenstedt
philipj at opera.com
Tue Feb 15 12:44:14 PST 2011
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:13:26 +0100, David Flanagan
<david at davidflanagan.com> wrote:
> On 02/15/2011 02:17 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:54:54 +0100, David Flanagan
>> <david at davidflanagan.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The draft specification defines 20+ medial event handler IDL
>>> attributes on HTMLElement. These events are non-bubbling and are
>>> always targeted at <audio> and <video> tags, so I wonder if they
>>> wouldn't be better defined on HTMLMediaElement instead.
>>
>> All event handler attributes are defined on HTMLElement regardless of
>> which kind of element they are fired on, because it's simpler to
>> implement this way, and is already implemented this way.
>>
>
> Fair enough, though I do think it will confuse developers who will think
> that those media events bubble. (I'll be documenting them as properties
> of HTMLMediaElement).
It might be confusing if you document it as something other than what's
actually the case, too...
> What about Document and Window? What's the justification for defining
> the media event handler attributes on those objects?
Huh, it is on Window, I hadn't seen that before. They were added in
http://html5.org/r/3005 but I can't say I understand why.
I can't see it on Document in Web DOM Core, though, am I missing something?
--
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software
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