[whatwg] on* attributes on DOM elements

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Fri Jun 17 10:17:23 PDT 2011


On 6/17/11 12:57 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 6/17/11 8:49 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 May 2011 21:11:59 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> It looks like Gecko, Presto, and Webkit all support on* event
>>> attributes on all DOM elements, not just HTMLElement.
>>>
>>> IE9 seems to only support them on HTMLElement.
>>>
>>> I would propose that these be supported on all Elements at least for
>>> events that are not element-specific (e.g. "click").
>>
>> Should they move to DOM Core then? (I.e. those that are generic.)
>
> That would make the most sense to me.

And to be clear, I'm talking here about IDL attributes, not content 
attributes.

-Boris



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