[whatwg] Should onfoo event handler properties be on Element or HTMLElement?

[Erik Dahlstrom]

On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:53:29 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj at opera.com>  
wrote:

...
> OK, I hadn't considered that moving this to Element would imply the
> content attributes being reflected for all namespaces. Even though
> Blink has the IDL attributes on Element, it looks like the reflection
> with the content attributes only works for HTMLElement and SVGElement.
> In other words, "whatever Blink does" doesn't look like something
> worth standardizing.
>
> Erik, does going with "SVGElement implements GlobalEventHandlers"
> (like Gecko) seems like a way forward for the SVG spec?
>
> Philip

Given the reasons brought up in this thread I should think that the WG  
would agree that "SVGElement implements GlobalEventHandlers" is an  
acceptable way forward.


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