[whatwg] API design restrictions due to barewords in onxxx="" attributes

[Yehuda Katz]

Yehuda Katz
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On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:

> On 11/26/11 1:03 AM, Yehuda Katz wrote:
>
>> Honestly, before this discussion, I would have been surprised to hear
>> that this works at all. It also seems to me that the group of people who
>> know how to add an expando and the group of people who use onxxx= is
>> pretty small to begin with.
>>
>
> This isn't about people doing it on purpose.  It's about people doing it
> by accident via copy/paste programming, which is the common case of using
> barewords in on* attributes to start with: people who do it have no idea
> _why_ that code works, just that they copied it from somewhere and that it
> works.


Got it. Can we come up with a real-worldish example of someone using
expandos with barewords?


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> -Boris
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