[whatwg] HTMLElement.onreadystatechange

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon May 16 16:55:32 PDT 2011


On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, David Flanagan wrote:
>
> The spec says that every HTMLElement has an onreadystatechange idl 
> attribute. But then it never says anything about firing readystatechange 
> events at elements, only at the Document.
> 
> Can it be removed from HTMLElement, or does it need to be there for web 
> compatibility?

For consistency, all the event handler attributes on HTMLDocument and 
HTMLElement are the same now.

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